posted by leo
on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 10:15
Why do I feel like we've been here before? Fox News correspondent Mara Liasson just had a segment on NPR's Morning Edition that essentially did nothing but complain that the Democratic Administration no longer uses right-wing catch phrases, many of them the product of paranoia and fanaticism, such as 'Axis of Evil', 'War on Terrorism', 'Death Tax' and 'Right to Life'.
She then brings on Joe Queenan who praises expressions like 'War on Terror' because it's "very specific" and "everyone knows what it means" -- while trying to recast Obama as 'Slick Willy' because according to Queenan, "it's kind of hard to pin this guy down on anything".
Liasson calls this use of language 'Orwellian' and it is -- just not in the way she imagines.
