Posted on 07/19/2012 9:39:16 PM PDT by struggle
I hope you all wont mind this vanity, but my father and I were working (yeah, I know Obama's trying hard to put an end to that), and we started talking about how cable news talking heads have adopted repetitious cliches in their constant partisan battles on the tube.
Here are the top five I DESPISE: 1. At the end of the day... 2. Look,... 3. Speaking truth to power... 4. It is what is is... (a true exercise in tautology) 5. Literally... (when they're figuratively explaining a metaphor or hypothetical)
I can see why political discourse made George Orwell's blood boil so much. The linguistic bumpers that these talking heads punctuate their message with parse the core message to the point of making it meaningless.
Kicking the can down the road.
The biggest lie told 5 days a week is, “No spin zone.”
“It is what it is” is a new way of saying ‘You can’t fight city hall’
People use the “It Is” phrase as a way of shutting down the conversation - a throwing up of the hands and giving up gesture... so you too must give up the conversation.
You can fight city hall - it isn’t what it is - it only is what it is if you give up and tell others to give up.
The Sun is hot, the weather-weathers, that ‘is what it is’ - however most people don’t use that phrase for the obvious “Is” but for things that can be changed.
Never give up - always fight “what it is” —it’s the Tea Party way :)
(Obamacare = ‘it is what it is’ - No it’s not...)
“It is what it is” - aargh (I really HATE that phrase)”
I hate it as well. I consider it a gutless way of saying that something is “bad” or it is referencing something in a negative light. It is a cop out to the intellectually lazy. That said, I hear it so often that I didn’t consider it a political cliche....
I do agree with you tho’, it is the every day phrase that I hate the most. It is closely followed by “kno what I sayin’”
“Sheeple - I have only heard it used by people who were ticked that they weren’t the shepards.”
I use that one quite often, however I use it from the perspective of calling folks purposefully ignorant. I am hoping that someday it will cause such offense that someone will actually educate themselves!
;-)
Anything from “True Blue Rhinos” posting on Free Republic.
>> “It is what it is” is a new way of saying ‘You can’t fight city hall’
Sure, sometimes.
I’m just saying that the phrase actually has meaning outside of (and sometimes, within) the political arena to the point that merely hearing the phrase itself doesn’t piss me off personally. And isn’t that what this thread is all about?
Let me give you one example from *within* the political arena. Whether or not we like it, Romney will be the (R) candidate this time around. “It is what it is.” You can piss, moan, argue, stamp your feet, etc. but in the end, it WILL be. For better or worse, at this juncture “It is what it is”. You may not like it but you can’t change it.
Right, but so many people in talking politics or business, etc. use that phrase to stop further thinking or problem solving...even if someone says it 'correctly' it still drives me over a cliff :>) - it's being over used for everything.
Next time you hear someone say it - dissect it and see if they are using it correctly or just saying it to shut up the other persons viewpoint. Is it Really what it is?(forever and ever?) Or is it what it is right now? (You CAN fight city hall)
That's a good example
He's the nominee - that "Is what it is"
If people used the phrase for the 'moment' it would be one thing but the people I bump into who say "It is what it is" to the Romney nomination take it many steps further as a 'nothing to see here, move along' ...instead of fighting and challenging the RINO.'Romney got in - what's on American Idol?'
If People accepted the Obama administration completely as "It Is What It Is" - we'd all just march along like good little Comrades.... there'd be no Tea Party
"It is what it is" sucks the fight out of confronting the "It".
Listen to how the phrase is miss and overused in your travels- drives me nuts:>)
“Game change” was around before the book “Game Change,” but probably got new life after that book was made into an HBO movie recently.
;)
Yup
“Honestly,”
We all know the MSM os never honest. Everything they do and say is agenda driven, Obama approved propaganda.
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