Sorta like the word "liar" being used in a similar manner. Being wrong isn't necessarily being a liar.
If you are referring to GWB and the run-up to the Iraqi invasion, I agree that 'liar' is not exactly the word I would use, although I don't know an alternative word for "had already made up his mind to invade, so he cherry-picked the intel and hyped it shamelessly to We The People". Maybe the Germans have one; they seem to specialize in one word terms to describe complex situations.
There is plenty of blame to go around as to who caused it, but the ideological schism in this country is getting worse...
The post that started this discussion mentioned the casual labeling of reformers as "traitors". From Gingrich's infamous "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control":
Words to describe Democrats:
"Anti-flag, anti-family, anti-child, anti-jobs, betray, coercion, collapse, consequences, corruption, crises, decay, deeper, destroy, destructive, devour, endanger, failure, greed, hypocrisy, ideological, impose, incompetent, insecure, liberal, lie, limit(s), pathetic, permissive attitude, radical, self-serving, sensationalists, shallow, sick, they/them, threaten, traitors, unionized bureaucracy, urgent, waste" |
