The Reporter’s Lexicon Book
by Mike on Feb.03, 2010, under Political
It seems the MSM Reporter’s Lexicon book has been reissued, and two works are noticeably absent. Whatever happened to “Gravitas” and “Quagmire”?
When George Bush ran and was elected on 2000, all we heard from the MSM was he has no gravitas. Now that we have a president whose lack of experience is reflected in his lack of results, the word is mysteriously missing from prolitical dialogue. Run a search using Obama gravitas and everything is several months to years old, except the article stating that “West Point offers gravitas”. Not that Obama has gravitas, but that his audience does.
Secondly, now that we have a new president who is staying the course in Iraq and has doubled down on Afghanistan, clearly we have a (continuing) quagmire, right? Apparently not. run a a search using Obama quagmire and most of the articles are dated by several months to a year with only one such article dated after the President made the decision (which I agree with) to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Isn’t it amazing how the MSM seems to march in lockstep, even in their lexicon?
