Wie in Orwell's 1984 kultivieren die Republikaner ihre eigene Sprache. Ziel ist Wahrheiten zu verschleiern. Wie Orwell in seinem Essay "Politics and the English Language" schreibt werden da viele Floskeln benutzt die keine Bedeutung haben.
Via Braad DeLong kommt da Teresa Nielsen Hayden und sagt genau das: wenn Bush spricht sagt er nichts.
She was trying to figure out what he meant by his remarks.
Nothing, I told her. He meant nothing. Bush doesn't really talk to us. When it's advantageous or required, he'll go through the motions of talking to us, but that's all. What it "means" is that he either has to do it, like the State of the Union speech; or he wants something from us, like votes; or he's tossing out a string of words calculated to endear him to some fraction of the citizenry, like "manned missions to Mars" or "Constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage." He doesn't care what he's saying, and afterward he doesn't consider himself bound by what he's said.
Da gibt es natuerlich viele Idioten die in Bush's Reden eine "Freedom Agenda" reinlesen. Offensichtlich haben die alle in den letzten 6 Jahren nicht aufgepasst.
'I'll Stop Calling This Crew "Orwellian" When They Stop Using "1984" as an Operations Manual' ;)
Posted by: Pancho Villa | April 06, 2006 at 07:41 PM