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Parker: The 'inequality' of political rhetoric
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WASHINGTON — In politics, it's all in how you say things. George Orwell knew what he was talking about when he described political language as "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Today, we've become so accustomed to the distortions of political speak that we hardly notice.