It's gibberish, like so much of what they drone on about.
Posted on 07/27/2004 9:48:38 PM PDT by L,TOWM
OK FRiends, I confess my confusion. For the last two nights I have watched the Rat Ritual on CSPAN. In between alternately catnapping and throwing stuff at my TV, I keep hearing the rodents squeaking out the phrase "speaking truth to power".
Is this a code phrase? What does it mean? When have any of these people spoke "truth" in any context? How much more power does a Billionaire Senator need before some one gets to speak "truth" to him? Or is this just another example of lib gibberish (forgive the redundancy) like "The politics of meaning" or "That depends on what the definition of is, is." ?
I need help. And if I watch anymore of this Bandini Factory that the Fleet Center has been turned into, the help I require just might be the professional type.
I thought the best part was when Alan Colmes referred to "Barak OSAMA" instead of Barak Obama.
I have no idea what "speaking truth to power" means. Their pretzel logic is painful to endure.
When you get the name of a good professional, please pass it along to me.
http://news.google.com/news?q=speaking+%22truth+to+power%22&btnG=Search+News&hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8
Interesting - I haven't found a definition yet
It means, "However you thought you understood this phrase, you are wrong!"
Telling lies to convince the non-believers................
It's gibberish, like so much of what they drone on about.
"sidewindin' cracker croaker is gonna..."
A great scene in a great flick... Thanks for the laugh :-))
OK, FRiends. I eagerly await enlightenment...
One more advantage of living overseas and only being able to gets soundbites or an hour at a time. Can't seem to get past 30 minutes anyway.
Thank God for the Discovery Channel.
I think it means something like defiantly delivering a message of "truth" to those in positions of power.
I believe the phrase was coined by Anita Hill.
She is a big-time liberal, so she probably stole it from someone else.
Hope that helps.
(steely)
The RATS are straining to keep their "we're for the little guy" class warfare electoral angle -- specially with a couple of filthy rich beyond all imagination candidates on their ticket.
But, I thought this was an interesting search result though:
CA PING
It is an old Quaker teaching that urges followers to stand up and speak to governments, rulers and the powerful about wrongs, abuses, injustice and unpleasant truths. Anita Hill used it for the title of her book.
"Speaking truth to power" would be standing up at a gay pride parade filled with oppressed-by-society bankers and lawyers and accountants and landlords, and declaring to them that homosexual sodomy is a form of murder since it destroys both the soul and the body.
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