By Robert Knight
America is awash in doublespeak.
Words such as "marriage," "conservatism," "bigotry," "tolerance" and
"brave" no longer have universal meaning, and this is no accident.
When confusion replaces clarity, the devil breaks out the champagne.
It's so much easier to push people toward the abyss when the stop signs
are edited to say "whatever."
Doublespeak is "language which makes the bad seem good, the negative
seem positive, the unpleasant seem unattractive, or at least tolerable,"
wrote William Lutz, author of the 1996 book The New Doublespeak.
The prize for doublespeak goes to the Post's "Right Turn"
columnist Jennifer Rubin. Her hot buttons are "social conservatives" and
the Tea Party. She frequently urges the Republican Party to throw them
overboard or face oblivion.
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Posted May 8, 2013 on Tea Party Unity
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