*The politician claimed that my research showed that I supported the proposition, but really he was just **slanting the facts***. 

> slant: to interpret or present **in line with a special interest** :  [**angle**](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/angle)
 <stories slanted toward youth>; especially :  to maliciously or dishonestly distort or falsify 

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