Tuesday, February 17, 2009
 
Let's Talking About Parsing Statements
From a Washington Times article entitled "'Doom' talk scored as 'not presidential'", we have a former "senior aide" to George W. Bush showing that Republican professional political parasites can look like twits:
    Brad Blakeman, a senior aide to Mr. Bush from 2001 to 2004, said the new president's language is immature.

    "It's not presidential. An American leader needs to be hopeful and optimistic - and truthful. Everything he says is parsed; everything he says is searched for deep meaning. When he goes to 'DefCon 5' on the economy and says that we're on the brink of catastrophe, it's absolutely insane."
As anyone whose life was changed by the 1983 film WarGames can tell you, the DEFCON scale goes from 5, the lowest which is used during normal peacetime conditions, to 1, which means the mountain is closed, brother.

Maybe professional political parasites should really stay away from the military talk since they don't teach that so well at the Kennedy School of Government.


- posted by Brian J. @ 12:17 PM
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