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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...have a whole network dedicated to propounding Republican policies, like Fox News. The existence of a channel like Fox means that terminology fine-tuned in the White House can quickly enter the political conversation as though it were objective terminology and not rhetoric. A classic example was Ari Fleischer??s April 2002 nonsensical term “homicide bombers” to describe Hamas suicide attacks. Fleischer was exhibiting that classic Bush-administration courage by scoring rhetorical points against terrorists, but the actual term is meaningless and even counterproductive. What bomber is not homicidal? The term...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: The Struggle for Language | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...began a few hours after my thesis was due. The final sleepless days of editing were interspersed with regular updates on the unraveling United Nations situation and constant images of Ari Fleischer??s face. The frustration of watching a war commence, alongside the sadness of watching young American, British, Australian and Iraqi soldiers and journalists die in technicolor, took its toll. As my thesis ended and the war began, a week of sunbathing in Cancun seemed equally mandatory and ridiculously obscene...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Sandstorms and Sandy Beaches | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

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