Since the March election we have become used to interpreting everything the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) says through the filter of Orwellian 1984-style doublespeak -- "war is peace," that sort of thing.
Take KMT Chairman Lien Chan's (??) remark on March 20 that "this was an illegal election." Obviously it should be construed as meaning that the election was a regional model of democratic practice.
This "don't read my lips" interpretation has recently had heavy usage. For example, readers might remember how in the election's immediate aftermath the riots were predictably called "peaceful protests" by "dissatisfied voters" who actually were blue rent-a-mobs.
We were told that it was of the utmost urgency to speed the recount, so urgent that declaration of a state of emergency was suggested. What this was shown to mean was that the pan-blues would try every gambit they could find to drag their feet on getting the recount under way, even down to the world's richest political party saying it could not afford the NT$60 million bond it had to hand over to the court to make sure it wouldn't default on the case's cost if it were required to pay.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/05/31/2003157694
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