re: #106 Dark_Falcon

IAnd it’s something I do in sales all the time. Nothing evil about it at all.

Seriously? No difference between minor rephrasing and outright lies? No difference between lying for a greater good (e.g. to save someone from persecution) and lying to enrich the powerful at the expense of the powerless?

So just as he did with his infamous 2003 global warming warming memo – which taught conservatives how to sound like they care about the issue while opposing all action — Luntz has some key advice for Republicans on how to pretend to care about regular people while continuing to screw them over.
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Democrats do sometimes misuse the language and create euphemisms. All politicians do. But it is Luntz and his legion of conservative followers who have twisted the English language beyond recognition. They are the true Orwellians. The GOP parrot him as if they were reciting lessons in grammar school

This is evil. And so is defending and excusing it.