They're struggling right now to define swift-boating as a fabrication or falsification for malicious intent rather than exposing the truth. Tingles had a tizzy about this the other night on TV and was very strident is his insistence that Kerry had been subjected to false accusations.
They have won the battle to redefine gay as homosexual.
I hate euphemisms. They obscure truth. I like it called as it is.
Not all neologisms are euphemisms, of course. Travonization for example.
You mean to redefine sodomite as gay...