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:: Friday, February 07, 2003 ::
New Spinspeak Weapon: the Inadequately Smoking Gun
The Appeasement First in Iraq Camp has by now thoroughly polluted the phrase “smoking gun.”
Until recently, the phrase has meant incontrovertible evidence of guilt. Possibly the first use of the concept goes back to a Sherlock Holmes story in the 1890’s when the bad guy was seen with a “smoking pistol in his hand.” Without question, the phrase “smoking gun” was popularized during the Watergate investigation in the 1970’s in describing a Nixon tape recording that appeared to be clear evidence of a cover-up.
However, as Secretary Colin Powell displayed evidence and intelligence of smoking gun after smoking gun before the UN Security Council it became clear that for the Appeasement Firsters none of those guns smoked enough: a puff here maybe, a wisp there possibly, a smell of powder perhaps, but not truly a smoking gun.
Careful readers and auditors beware! Here is the spinspeak definition of smoking gun: reverse fantasyspeak for a mythological weapon that wards off reality at any cost.
:: James Baar 2/07/2003 12:12:00 PM [+] ::
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:: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 ::
Spin from the London Mosque
Abu Hamza al-Masri, London tabloid posterboy for Muslim radical clerics, has come up with a quadruple spin on President Bush’s “axis of evil” phrase.
Masri, who regularly tells his Muslim followers in London that Sept. 11 was a day of triumph for Islam, greeted with joy the loss of the Columbia space shuttle. He called it “a trinity of evil.” because it “contained Americans, an Israeli and a Hindu.”
Here is a masterpiece of negative engorgement: hate for Americans in general, President Bush in particular, all Jews, all Hindus and Christianity, all neatly packaged in four words.
:: James Baar 2/04/2003 11:13:00 AM [+] ::
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