"of course" and "obviously"
They are the most overused words by conservatives:
"Of course we want to get out of Iraq."
"Obviously no one cares more about the suffering in New Orleans than I do."
"Obviously no one wants war."
"Of course we want to find out how the information was leaked."
Once you've tuned in to those words, you can't listen to a Dick Cheney interview or Rush Limbaugh monologue without hearing them every other sentence. And of course it doesn't tend to be when things are actually obvious.
The most overused word by progressives? Kabuki. They're tired of the kabuki dance between Bush and Congress! They're sick of it!
posted by John Levenstein at
7:29 AM
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And the most underused word by both progressives and conservatives is epalpebrate.
at firedoglake.com, christy hardin smith (someone who's completely unafraid of cliches) writes:
"Here's a thought for everyone, media folks included: how about we stop playing along with the kabuki and concentrate on something beyond the level of idiocy one would expect from a race for 7th grade class treasurer?"
kabuki!
Just googled
kabuki iraq
156,000 hits! Some of pages use the words in unrelated contexts, but scanning through the matches, the overwhelming majority seem to link the two.
so i'm onto something?
Yes. And a google search for
epalpebrate iraq
has no matches. So I'm onto something too!
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