{"id":98,"date":"2013-07-15T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=98"},"modified":"2013-07-15T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:09:49","slug":"the-war-of-the-words-how-republicans-and-democrats-use-language-the-economist-1273013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"The war of the words How Republicans and Democrats use language. The Economist 12\/7\/3013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPOLITICAL language\u201d, wrote George Orwell, \u201cis designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.\u201d
\nNo leader will admit to having had people tortured, but Dick Cheney did say: \u201cI was and remain a strong proponent of our enhanced interrogation programme\u201d\u2014which means the same thing. Notice how, as Orwell put it, \u201cA mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details.\u201d<\/p>\n

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