Need Help With Rat Code Phrase

Self | 7/27/04 | L,TOWM

[StriperSniper]

by seizing some sort of power.

So it is their version of "Is it time yet?"

[1rudeboy]

Speaking truth to power? It's all about the politics of meaning. Can't you see?

[mewzilla]

It means bend over and grab your ankles.

[rabidralph]

Teresa Kerry tutors her son to speak truth to power.

[rabidralph]

Here's a picture of President Bush speaking truth to coward.

[Freebird Forever]

Is this a code phrase? What does it mean?

Just a new phrasing of an old notion.

Being willing to tell the emperor that he's wearing no clothes.

[Publius6961]

A quick review of Brave New World would answer your question. It's a meaningless phrase, flypaper for the ignorant.

Ever been in a group where someone will throw out a totally meaningless phrase and most of the others will nod or get the deer-in-the-headlights look?
Well, there is usually one person in the group who will say "Huh? that makes no sense!" or" "I don't understand that."
Most normal people are so afraid to appear ignorant that they play into the demagogues hands. But to rely on this technique is the surest sign of intellectual bankrupcy.

[wayoverontheright]

"Speaking truth to power" is what you SAY, when you have to LIE to the people who, if you fool them, can put you back in power.

[Moonman62]

Ever been in a group where someone will throw out a totally meaningless phrase and most of the others will nod or get the deer-in-the-headlights look? Well, there is usually one person in the group who will say "Huh? that makes no sense!" or" "I don't understand that."

Stuned your beeber.

[aculeus]

It's an old old left-wing rally-around-dasKapital phrase.

[savedbygrace]

It means, "We'll determine for you what the truth is after we're back in power."

[Axenolith]

It's just one of those feel good, meaningless, catch phrases the left is so enamoured of, the kind that roll off the tongue like water after they've taken a half dozen bong hits and listened to Rage Against the Machine for a couple of hours in a Berkeley dorm...

[Happy2BMe]

Fascinating find, Steplock!

Google.com search engine fine-tuned for the Democratic Power Grab - ping!

The Democratic Speaking (GRABBING) Truth To Power Search Engine

[dennisw]

The leftists use this phrase to pretend they are under a tyranny that they are bravely speaking up against and in peril for doing so. A favorite leftist phrase that comes from the Quakers. Here's a use of it from 1992

 

Re: Environmentalism is not Anti-Individualism
... o= In the case of Greenpeace, one of the guiding principles of the organizations is the Quaker imperative of "speaking truth to power." The "speaker" is ...
alt.individualism - Oct 6, 1992 by Allen Smith - View Thread (47 articles)

[dennisw]

post #54 explains this phrase. So the billionaire Teresa Heinz Ketchup is courageously "speaking truth to power" ? What a hoot.