Language Inversion

Now that Nancy Pelosi is on the hot seat, I see the rhetoric has

inverted completely. Republicans are calling the alleged scandal

"torturegate" (invoking the word they've assiduously avoided till now),

and Democrats are saying that the thing Pelosi might or might not have

been briefed on is "harsh interrogation" -- a term they've previously

dismissed as weasel wording.



Orwell really nailed it; politicians can't control reality, but through

the abuse of language they ca...