These word changes are Liberal Newspeak straight out of Orwell's 1984. It is as Ann says above a Liberal conspiracy to dumb down the language. Orwell is hailed as a prophet by the MPM (Media Proganda Machine) for his clairvoyant predictions of a not too distant Fascistic future. BS, Orwell was a Socialist Liberal Fabian Communist Statist of the 1st Order, he was not writing a prophecy, 1984 was a How-To Manual, & it works all too Orwell.

Comparing the ISG to the ladies of "the View" is scathingly brilliant.

Ann….

The canard did not start nor stop there. As ESQ so poignantly posts, the Orwellian double speak employed in “1984” and “Animal Farm” is no different that the “Code” used by today’s yellow running jackals, I meant, Democrabs et al.

“Crony”, “gang”, chicken hawk”, “thugs”, “brave American service people” all mean different things to the left.

I suppose that this is the way the Left gets their hate out to their proles.

Equally of interest is the fact that the Left seems to avoid and eschew any sense of positivism. Whatever term they chose to bastardize or redefine (remember “marriage?”) takes on an onerous and noisome connotation.

A crony is an old friend, not an unindicted co-conspirator, as the LSM would have you believe. (One would need to nominate someone like John Murtha for that sobriquet.)

A gang, while there is a perceived negative, has its roots in the sense of working together FOR a common good or goal. As we have all learned by now, the left and their candidates political, are rarely, if ever FOR something, rather taking solace and comfort it taking the easier AGAINST something tack.

A chicken hawk to me is that lovable cartoon character who was the foil to Foghorn Leghorn. Is it my imagination or does said Mr. Leghorn resemble in tenor and intellect a number of Democrabic Senators who have passed their shelf life?

And, for some odd reason, “brave American service people” to me and mine, meant, well, brave and American people who are in service to our country. I am not sure when the distinction as made by the kind folks of the Left decided that “brave American service people” really meant “vicious killers” “torturers” and the like. Sure, they kill civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is because these upright followers of one Middle Eastern miscreant or another do not have the good fashion sense to wear a uniform. Thereby the ACLU, MoveOn and other RICO suspect groups make the outrageous claim that just because those who wish us harm feel the need to ignore the Geneva Conventions and we must comply to the letter the umbrae and penumbrae that we are therefore killing civilians because they are in mufti.

Please.

In any event, Ann, thanks for pointing out the obvious to us and you have my fervent prayer that the good people who hold political views antipodal to mine, (or, in other speak, "no good, freedom hating, God denying, anti-American rat bastards") come to Jesus and see the error of their ways.

God Bless and God Speed
John

Wonderfully brilliant column, Ann!

Orwell’s “newspeak” has been going on for quite some time. The PC crowd has been incrementally infiltrating our language with this nonsense for years and it’s only intensifying.

It’s a way of making “winning” sound like “losing”; “losing” sound like “winning”; “good” sound like “bad”; “bad” sound like “good”; “important” sound like “trivial”; and “trivial” sound like “important”. And, 2 + 2 is 5, for today anyway.

Just as the U.S. Constitution is now a living breathing document, apparently so are the definitions of words in the English language. Merriam-Webster had better be prepared.

We now have “detainees” at Guantanamo; not “terrorists”, not “prisoners”, not “insurgents”, not even “radical Islamic Muslim jihadists that are killing Americans”.

Yet, our guards are still referred to as “captors”, not “detainers”, “holders”, or some other flowered up name.

The word “captors” makes it sound like our troops abducted innocent Iraqi’s and Afghani’s in their sleep “while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads”; not visions of beheading Americans or visions of 72 virgins awaiting their arrival in heaven.

“Chairman” became “Chair” due to the feminist PC crowd when they got their panties in a ruffle at being women being called chairMAN. And I thought all they wanted was equality.

I’ll bet that’s why ERA was never ratified. Feminists probably wore, took off and threw someone else’s bra into the fire – not their own.

As you said, “traitorous” is “patriotic”. And “patriotic” is now “uneducated unenlightened moronic hayseed hick”.

“Pro-Abortion” is now “Pro-Choice”.

“Garbage Men” are now “Sanitation Engineers”.

“Janitors” are now “Maintenance Mechanics”.

“Black people” are now “African-American”, even if they have no roots in Africa, i.e. Barack Hussein Obama. Note: There is one exception. Walter E. Williams refuses to change his ethnicity again and has said so publicly. He’s still black and proud of it.

“Is” doesn’t mean “is” anymore although I don’t remember if a new meaning had ever officially been assigned.

“Alone” doesn’t really mean “alone” anymore although again, I don’t remember if a new meaning had ever officially been assigned.

“Having sex” doesn’t mean “having sex” anymore, although I’m completely at a loss on that one.

“I have a great memory” means “I can’t remember sh--”.

“I have no idea” means “I know exactly what happened”.

“The Iraq Surrender Group feels sure they won't come here if we pull out of Iraq.” Just like there have been no terrorist attacks in Spain after their surrender – I mean “pullout” – in Iraq.

The Pentagon will never tell us the number of terrorists we’ve been “sending to the virgins” because these aren’t terrorists waging jihad on America and Americans. They are protectors and defenders of the homeland. We are the invaders.

By the way, if the terrorists really are “protectors and defenders of the homeland” and we are the invaders, doesn’t that mean “no virgins for you, oh defender of the homeland”?

The problem is that Americans are being relentlessly duped by liberal Democrats and the liberal media into believing that America is losing in Iraq. Americans aren’t paper tigers when they know the truth. The problem is that “truth” has now become “a matter of perspective”.

Osama bin Laden has it wrong. Americans aren’t paper tigers. American politicians, especially liberal Democrats, are. Turn our troops loose and let’s see who the paper tiger is.

LynnJG makes way too much sense for the average person in general or a libercrab in particular to digest. (BTW, after the second line I recognized his/her writing style.)

Just like in Orwellian double speak, the words have not only morphed to mean what the birkenstockistas want them to mean, a la the Queen of Hearts, but they also control the means of dissemination for their code.

Even with the instant availability of information on the internet, sadly most Americans are force-fed their information, and more sadly the data needed to make an informed and correct opinion, by the LSM.

In my humble opinion, and by humble I mean “correct and accurate” the first step that needs be addressed is a reeducation of the proles. Once they are exposed to columns such as this and other websites that are more intellectually honest than the information divulged by the LSM perhaps then and only then the lies, falsehoods, prevarications, mendacious statements, slanders and libels of the left will be exposed.

Unfortunately I am not the person who can make this happen. But, together, all of us, by emailing our friends, co-workers, family members, social acquaintances and more can make it happen. If you let the Left make their outrageous claims and allow them to go unchallenged, then we all deserve what we get, which is more of the same.

One need not have an evangelist’s zeal in dissemination of said truths. When there is a hot topic such as the ISG perhaps an email containing a rebuttal to said findings with the simple comment like “gee, I never thought of this before, do you thing the media are lying to us?” might do the trick. Subtle, but effective.

A quick word about the brilliant findings of that august body of previously employed public servants and hacks. I wrote out a series of left wing espousing methodologies that said panel might suggest. Each page had a single “brilliant revelation” (newspeak for “equine scatology”) that could be on the table. I have a wonderful pet “Rocket the Wonderdog”, a fine example of a North Carolina Slaw Hound, and he loves papers. I gave him the sheath of papers and he played with them and rolled around in them then he amassed them in a heap. No surprise, they were in roughly the same order as the compilation of those with the limited EEG.

Bitter? A tad, but seriously we have no one to blame but ourselves if we allow the lies to circulate and gain currency.

God Bless, God Speed, God Help Us All
John

John,

Her.

Lynn

Lynn:

LOL

Did not mean to offend, as I know a few fellows with the same first name. But not sensitive enough to make overt apologies in advance for a putative error. Love your comments! Keep them coming regardless of your gender-choice.

(The "JG" also threw me, as it may stand for "Junior Grade" a military rank.)

God Bless
John

John,

LOL!!!

It takes a bit more than that to offend me!!!

Yes, I know my name can be either male or female, i.e. the great Lynn Swann was not a woman football player. Trust me - I could not be mistaken for a man.

JG - J is for my middle name; G is for my last name.

Lynn

When did "B.C." (before Christ) and "A.D." (anno Domini, "in the year of the Lord") get replaced with "BCE" (before the common era) and "CE" (common era)?

About 2,000 years ago, among the Jewish community, and probably as long among other non-Christians.

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I am not certain that information is accurate. While I am not Jewish, from my understanding they have their own calendar. I believe this year is 5767. I do not see why they would use BC, BCE, AD, CE, LS/MFT or any other term to describe the year. You are correct that other non-Christian religions use their own calendars, Muslim, Hindu et al.

As far as its usage dating back that far, that would be incorrect. It seems that its earliest use is no more that 300 years.

You do touch a nerve tho, as Ann intimates. Why redefine AD and BC when they have been extant for over a millennium and a half?

If AD and BC are abhorrent to those lacking religious tolerance, why not change “Los Angeles” (do you know the complete name of that city? It is even more religious!) to “City of Guiding Celestial Beings”, or “San Diego” to “City of a Higher Supreme Power, or not, Your Choice” and do you really want to know what San Francisco ought be called?

Why can’t people just leave enough alone!

God Bless and God Speed
John

How much evidence is needed to persuade people that enemies of the U.S., within and without are using the Democrat Party to destroy us? Take out the culprits and I don't mean to dinner. The damage that they have inflicted on children, families and me is as real as bullets and howitzer rounds.
Take out television and half our war is won.
Hail Victory.
Raise the voting age to twenty-one and you've regained some precious ground.
Long live Ann Coulter. Hail Victory.

Ann, another great column.

LynnJG, it is as if you read my mind before posting. And you say it so much better :-)

Keep the comments flowing, guys and gals! I agree, I agree, I agree!!!!

Thanks for the compliment JASCC!

Ann continues to speak the truth...and the truth continues to be spoken only to those who already understand it. We are only "losing the war in Iraq" because that is what the pussy-liberals want people to believe, and they are great at getting their lies out to the masses. Our soldiers are doing great work at great risk, but the liberals and liberal media won't recognize it because it does not serve their purpose. They were successful in getting us to pull out of Vietnam, where hundreds of thousands died in the wake of our last chopper...and the same thing will happen if we pull out too soon in Iraq...and I don't know why any reasonable, sane person would WANT that...which gives me another reason to believe that pussy-liberals have serious mental problems and should be either institutionalized or sent to France (which is redundant, I think...). We need leaders now. Ann? We need you...and others like you...because our so-called conservative leadership has failed us miserably, at the potential cost of our country.

Taxigringo,

I do not know if your "hail victory" is a self identification as a Nazi or not. "Hail victory is English for "sieg heil."

The Islamofascists will join the Nazis in the dung heap of history of those who tried to exterminate the Jews only to find that the G-d of the Jews (Blessed be He) destroyed them instead.

Ziggy, I love your comments. It just would not be an Ann column without you referring to “pussy-liberals” at least once! You are spot on.

Regarding Loser’s always erudite comments, he raises a very interesting point regarding our Jewish and Israeli friends. Far be it from me to cast any aspersions or make an assumption unwarranted, but it seems to me that a larger percentage of those of the Jewish faith, practicing or not, more readily embrace liberalism that do other religions. I know I am treading on this ice here, please bear with me. But, is it not perplexing that the liberals, those who would have us sit down with Imamentalpatient of Iran or others of his ilk and sing Kumbaya, are urging us to deal with the same people who wish to wipe Israel off the face of the map.

I do not think that they will succeed (the Islamofascists or the Liberals, small difference) as I do not think it is God’s Will. (I read the end of the book, I think the ending does not support the idea of Islamofascists winning.)

Please, do not misunderestimate me, the Islamofascists will not be happy when Israel is gone or even America. They will not be happy when they convert the entire world. They will only be happy when their particular sect is the only (or, as we say down south “onlyest”) one remaining. Perhaps we might be better off letting them kill off each other.

Interessant, Ihre Bemerkung auf “Sieg Heil. Gut gemacht! Aber die Benerkung, die sich nicht das Ende der Welt ist! LOL!

God Bless and God Speed
John

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