Mitch McConnell's Tortured Syntax

If Obama Wanted a "Give Kittens Milk" Resolution...

Living in Kentucky is embarrassing in so many ways. Our public education system's motto is "Thank God for Mississippi," the inbreeding in the hills is not myth, and our Senators are the knuckle dragging Jim Bunning and the lying GOP mouthpiece (and bugeyed corpse) Mitch McConnell. It's hard to be proud of a people that would elect these two worthless bastards to Congress once, much less over and over as they have done for years now.  At least in Louisiana the crooks and nazis they elect are colorful.  Mitch McConnell is just an awful, repulsive man.

Mitch McConnell: The Audacity of Nope

It's not as bad as living in a state where David Duke or Edwin Edwards can get elected, but between Senator Mitch McConnell and the jaw-droppingly stupid Senator Jim Bunning, Kentucky is a pretty embarrassing place to call home.

Vast Right Wing Idiocy

Maybe someone should ask people like my Senator (Mitch McConnell) why they completely ignore these suggestions. Perhaps it is because their political ascendency would be altered by behaving ethically and prudently.

My favorites are:

Avoid Ill-Defined and Offensive Terminology: We are communicating with, not confronting, our audiences. Don't insult or confuse them with pejorative terms such as 'Islamo-fascism,' which are considered offensive by many Muslims.

Never use the terms 'jihadist' or 'mujahideen' in conversation to describe the terrorists. A mujahed, a holy warrior, is a positive characterization in the context of a just war. In Arabic, jihad means "striving in the path of God" and is used in many contexts beyond warfare. Calling our enemies jihadis and their movement a global jihad unintentionally legitimizes their actions.

Avoid negation, such as "We are not at war with Islam." Sadly, studies show that people tend to forget the negative part of a statement, so that when you say, for instance, "I do not hate them," the words that get remembered are hate and them.

Often it seems to me that the right wing hawks have seen this document and decided to use that language against their opponents regardless of its effect on national (or worldwide for that matter) security.