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- From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.bush
- Subject: Re: Bush wins doublespeak award
- Message-ID: <7268@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 16:24:31 GMT
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- In article <D2150056.j7s2ki@erics.infoserv.com> erics@infoserv.com writes:
- '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:
- '
- '- 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.
- '
- '- 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.
- '
- '- 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.
- '
- 'And what of Quayle? Well, the third-place Doublespeak Award went to
- 'all politicians who exploited the term "family values" this year.
-
- Well, who won second place?
- --
- Emil Thomas Chuck eyc@acpub.duke.edu Biomedical Engineering 1993
- Hope you have a very good "Native American Exploitation" Day.
- I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm
- good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
-