I used to admire John McCain. I am grateful for his military and civil service and for taking on his own Republican party when they were just plain wrong. But the John McCain I see in this campaign is a shell of the man I once looked up to.
His general election campaign is being run [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Political Language'
The Fall Of John McCain
October 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Debate · Election · From the Hip · Mccain · Political Language · Republican
John McCain Redefines What Economic Fundamentals Are
September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
John McCain recently seems to have little problem uttering such blatantly false and idiotic statements that it makes President Bush look like a statesman.
Today, Sen McCain said that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times.”
He said this the same day that investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy [...]
Tags: Congress · Economy · Election · Euphemism Glossary · Political Language · Republican
Images and Language of Political Misdirection
September 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
I was duped. Even though I take a critical eye to political language in this blog, I failed to take that same critical eye to the use of political imagery in my previous post. That got me thinking about how much political imagery gets faked and more importantly, how much of it is the general [...]
Tags: Democrat · Election · Political Language · Republican
Political Euphemism Glossary- New Entry: Energy Recovery
August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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Tags: Euphemism Glossary · Political Language
Political Euphemism Glossary- New Entry: Support The Troops
February 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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Tags: Euphemism Glossary · Iraq · Military · Political Language · War
Political Euphemism Glossary- New Entry: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
October 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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Tags: Bush Administration · Dept of Justice · Euphemism Glossary · Political Language · President Bush · Terrorism · War
Political Euphemism Glossary- New Entry: Undocumented Workers
October 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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Tags: Euphemism Glossary · Immigration · Political Language
Why Columbia University Did The Right Thing
September 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University today brought out the best and worst in modern American culture. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger showed courage in inviting such a polarizing and controversial figure to speak. There were calls to cancel the Iranian president’s invitation and now some politicians want to cut funding to Columbia [...]
Tags: Congress · Constitution · Iran · Political Language
Political Euphemism Glossary- New Entry: Legislatively Directed Spending
July 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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Tags: Budget · Congress · Euphemism Glossary · House of Representatives · Political Language
Political Euphemism Glossary- New Entry: Surge
July 13th, 2007 · No Comments
The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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Tags: Bush Administration · Euphemism Glossary · Iraq · Military · Political Language · War