According to Wikipedia, doublespeak
is “language that deliberately
disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the
form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs, "servicing
the target" for bombing, in which case it is primarily meant to make the
truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional
ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning (for example,
naming a state of war "peace"). In such cases, doublespeak disguises
the nature of the truth. Doublespeak is most closely associated with political
language.”
President Obama specializes in doublespeak:
In his State of the Union Speech this year, he declared that foreign
wars were over – even as he was asking for Congressional backing to wage war on
ISIS. I guess a bombing campaign is not war. He bragged about lower numbers of unemployment
but failed to tell us that those “lower numbers” were due to unemployed workers
who were so discouraged that they had given up looking for jobs.
Another keynote topic in President Obama’s State of the Union Speech
was the closing of Guantanamo Bay. Not mentioned were the five high-level GITMO
detainees the President traded for one American deserter – namely, Bowe Bergdahl
-- and that that three or more of these
newly released Islamic terrorists were now reconnecting with their terrorist
roots.
President Obama emphatically spoke about the persecution of Muslims in
response to the murder of three Muslim College students in North Carolina. While this is indeed tragic, and though
persecution of religious groups of any kind is never acceptable, why doesn’t our leader know that the persecution
of Jews in the U.S. is vastly higher than the persecution of Muslims? Adding
insult to injury, when Obama commented on the 21 Coptic Christians whose brutal
throat-slashing murders were broadcast all over the internet last week, our
double-speaking leader called it the murder of “Egyptian citizens.” There was no mention of these poor souls being
murdered for their faith. The ISIS video was entitled “A Message Signed With Blood To The Nation Of
The Cross” – as in the cross of Jesus. Then
they threatened to conquer Rome (the seat of the Catholic religion) after they
slaughter Christian hostages.
Is this not a religious war?
These are just a few of our feckless President’s attempts at
doublespeak, and there are far too many to try to detail them all here. I just
wanted to give you an overview.
