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:: Friday, January 07, 2005 ::
More on Spinning "Stingy"
Blatant use of stingy as smearspeak is analyzed at length by Columnist Ann Counter ("Liberals Love America Like O.J. Loved Nicole") and demonstrated in a recent New York Times editorial ("Are We Stingy? Yes.").
Two key Coulter points:
Stingy smearspeak is reworked with funny math. For example: Billions for "military liberation" to topple dictators (Iraq, Afghanistan, France) is defined as "destabilizing intervention" and, therefore, doesn't count as aid.
Use of stingy regardless of the facts is gussied up with the fuzzball phrase "love of country" -- spinspeak usage that has become almost as popular as the use among anti-war pols of the fuzzball phrase "support our troops."
:: James Baar 1/07/2005 09:00:00 AM [+] ::
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:: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 ::
Spinspeak Flows On... and On... in New Year
Spinspeak flows imaginatively in many areas as we the world enters 2005. Some pickings from flotsam in the stream:
suntan butler = Travel Industry inflator for a bath house attendant who arranges reflector screens and sunlamps in your hotel room. Naturally, suntan butlers cost more than mere attendants.
acute allergic reaction = cosmeticspeak introduced in the new Russia to explain the sudden demise of inconvenient businessmen and officials.
culmination speech = denialspeak for political concession speech which may or may not be laced with much sour-grape mashing and fogword promises of carrying on "the good fight" whatever that might be.
militant = positive categoryshift for child-murdering terrorists whom the speaker chooses to whitewash.
stingy = smearspeak for “you can never give enough to make up for being Number One;” much employed by Blame America-firsters and envious Europeans with inferiority omplexes.
naming opportunity = Charity Industry cosmeticspeak for offering ego massage in exchange for sizeable (and even not so sizeable) contributions; ego massage can range from a building facade to a small (and removable) plaque on a fire extinguisher.
:: James Baar 1/05/2005 02:38:00 PM [+] ::
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