Posted on 07/20/2011 6:39:10 PM PDT by massmike
The left thrives on language-manipulation, what George Orwell called “Newspeak” in his novel “1984.” It’s not a tax hike; it’s revenue enhancement. It’s not racial spoils; it’s affirmative action. Instead of class warfare or punishing productivity; call it making the rich pay their fair share. It’s not anti-Americanism, it’s historical revisionism.
Lib-speak is poison dipped in chocolate – toxins lethal to the economy, the culture and individual liberty. The idea is to hustle the unwary, to make them think they’re buying charity, equity, sweetness and light, when in reality the left is selling variants of a creed that’s failed miserably for more than a century – whether it’s called socialism, multiculturalism or moral relativism.
This year, with a debate raging over everything from a $14.3 trillion national debt and unemployment over 9%, to the meaning of marriage and the nature of terrorism, it’s more important than ever to cut through the fog of liberal clichés, exposing the snares they conceal.
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Lib-Speak calls the IQ-challenged Obama a genius. When is this country going to wake up to the fact that we have an idiot in the White House?
He who controls the terms in the debate, controls the debate.
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