This Modern World - Language is a virus: A real-life case study! - By Tom Tomorrow

[kpete]

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/09/29/tomo/

[AspenRose]

1. They are very good at that sort of thing...distorting language

And the media gives them a platform to do it 24/7.

[Electric Monk]

2. k&r nt

[BlooInBloo]

3. Heh. Here's one of the classic go-to Greenwald articles for accompaniment...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/02/self_absorption/

"The right's two-pronged religion of rage and self-pity

(updated below)

The Right in this country -- meaning the faction that followed George Bush for the last eight years -- long ago ceased being a movement of political ideas and is driven by two, and only two, extreme emotions: (1) intense, aggressive rage towards their revolving door of enemies, and (2) bottomless self-pity over how unfairly they're being treated. As their imminent defeat looks increasingly likely (potentially on a humiliating scale), these two impulses are in maximum overdrive, feeding off one another in endless self-perpetuation (the more they lose, the more victimized they feel, the more they rage against their enemies who oppress them, etc.).

The Right's rejection by the public can't possibly be due to anything they have done. It can only be due to some extremely vicious enemy that oppresses them uniquely and so very unfairly. For the moment, they're only losing because The Leftist Mainstream Media hates them and is deeply biased against them. Blue Texan points out just some of the painfully obvious idiocy at the heart of this specific strain of woe-is-me-ism:"

[Jokinomx]

4. Absolutely the Truth!

K & R