Words Mean Something, You Can't Just Make Stuff Up
Obama, on Palin's claim to be against earmarks, and an agent of change.
This is good. The locutions here are important. Even though they're lying, he probably can't say so in so many words. "Untruths" is a little too mild and oblique.
"They're making things up" seems pretty good to me.
Obama, on Palin's claim to be against earmarks, and an agent of change.
This is good. The locutions here are important. Even though they're lying, he probably can't say so in so many words. "Untruths" is a little too mild and oblique.
"They're making things up" seems pretty good to me.
posted by Winston Smith at
11:36 PM
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Winston,
Sorry, but since it was written by my namesake, your title for this post made me think of this passage:
""I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"
"But `glory' doesn't mean `a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.""
Pretty much SOP for today's GOP.
Indeed, a classic way to make the point.
Hard to believe that such a rudimentary trick routinely dupes so many people.
It's the rough dialectical equivalent of "your shoe's untied."
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