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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
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- Subject: Bush wins doublespeak award
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 13:55:32 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
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- George Bush won this year's Doublespeak Award, given annually by the
- National Council of Teachers of English for "public figures who have
- perpetrated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive or euphemistic".
- William Lutz, chairman of the council's Doublespeak Committee, cited
- three examples:
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- - Bush expressed hope, following the Persian Gulf War, for an end to
- arms proliferation in the Middle East, but then reversed a 25-year policy
- and began spending millions of tax dollars on international weapons
- shows.
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- - During Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention
- at Houston, he pledged that "every parent and child should have a real
- choice of schools, public, private, or religious", but Bush's proposed
- $1,000 voucher plan would not be enough to cover tuition for poor children
- and would redistribute tax dollars from public schools that serve the
- poor to private schools with middle- and upper-class pupils.
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- - Bush repeatedly charged that Bill Clinton had raised taxes 128 times
- as governor of Arkansas. But even though the charge was disputed by
- the New York Times as full of errors and distortions, the Bush campaign
- continued to use the statistic.
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- And what of Quayle? Well, the third-place Doublespeak Award went to
- all politicians who exploited the term "family values" this year.
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- Eric Smith
- erics@infoserv.com
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