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Exposing Deliberate Pollution of the English Language: Spinspeak Rots the Mind.

“Bury forever what some Neanderthals call the language of reality. We know that breeds nothing but envy and hate and fear and conflict. Bring home the language of happiness. We know that brings all of us together in a great multi-cultural bouillabaisse...”

--Spinmeister-in-Chief Marvin Runnymede, Ultimate Severance

“Too bad about his terrible accident. Always hard on da family.”

--Mobster Joey “the Boy” Lasagna, Ultimate Severance

Some Latest Spinspeak Mintings for the Spinspeak II Supplement:

earmarks=innocent-sounding congressional cosmeticspeak for vaguely related pork inserted into legislation on behalf of a legislator’s constituencies and/or “contributing” special interests.

buzz marketing=adspeak for word of mouth promotion via paid talkers

miscount=universal fuzzball for excusing deliberately slanted numerical reports as a simple mistake

hedonic adaptation=psychobabble for rapid deterioration of happiness and return to general dissatisfaction after something good occurs in your life such as a raise in pay, a promotion or demise of a rich aunt.

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:: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 ::

Benedict Gets the Quick Mainstream Media Spin

The returns are already in on Benedict XVI as far as the mainstream media is concerned.

The politically correct spin is that Benedict XVI is “conservative,” “ultra-conservative,” “arch conservative,” “known to be quite conservative,” “an unswerving hardliner,” an “enforcer” dedicated “to keeping the Church in the Middle Ages,” and “God’s rottweiler.”

Read “conservative” here as someone who doesn’t think the truth is whatever anyone fancies.

However, in using the epithet “God’s rottweiler,” the mainstream anchors, who probably never read Francis Thompson’s famous poem “The Hound of Heaven,” may ironically be on to something.

:: James Baar 4/20/2005 04:11:00 PM [+] ::
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