Backasswards - The New Face of Right-Wing 'Spin'

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Monday June 06, 2005 · 2:25 AM PDT

2005/06/06 · 02:25

It is hard to be surprised anymore by the rhetoric of the right-wing. I've come to expect a blind repetition of the latest GOP talking points - culture of life, freedom on the march, yadda yadda yadda.

The latest catchphrase to hit the conservative commentaries comes from none other than Dick "F*&k you" Cheney; apparently, the insurgency is in its `death throes'. Lucky for us, Kos already put that absurdity to rest.

Unfortunately, the rest of the GOP fantasy machine didn't get the message.

Victor Davis Hanson, in the Washington Times, wraps up an altogether Orwellian column (more on that later) by applying Cheney's fantasy to, well, a meme to encompass all global events:

Still, the racket and clamor from all these antidemocratic ideas in 2005 are not birth pangs, but the bitter death throes of those whose time has nearly passed.

The issue isn't really the (mis)use of one minor phrase; it is a symptom the up-is-down, black-is-white, back-asswards propaganda put forth by this administration and its supporters.

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Monday March 07, 2005 · 2:16 AM PST

2005/03/07 · 02:16

It was just over five weeks ago that I started waiting tables at the Grand Canyon Grill. I took the job more as a screen saver than real gainful employment, biding my time before my fresh college degree could get put to use. In the intervening lunches and dinners, I have served countless meals to innumerable customers, some memorable but most not. I have seen an entire management team go and be replaced by another. I saw business go from meager to worse and then back up again. I was asked to be patient while changes were made and promised more fruitful days ahead.

Through the changes, the promises, and the dead Sunday lunches when I would only serve one table, I stuck with them. I knew the business was hemorrhaging money, but the new management was working to turn things around; I had no way of knowing what was coming. Read More

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