Mark Drake, Republican spokesman, quacks up more newspeak
Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man’s brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.
- George Orwell, 1984, Chapter 5
Leslie Sandberg, communications director for Ciresi calculates that “68 percent of Ciresi’s money this quarter came from donors inside Minnesota, compared to about 50 percent for Coleman, and about 20 percent of Franken’s donors.”Ron Carey, MNGOP Chair: “No matter how many millions he raises from his far-left friends outside our state, Al Franken won’t be able to convince Minnesotans he has the temperament, demeanor and experience necessary for the U.S. Senate.”
7/24/2007
Kevin Diaz, Star Tribune: “In all, Franken’s camp reports that more than 4,000 of his 28,000 donors were from Minnesota, including 3,677 who gave less than $200.
Coleman’s camp reports that about 3,500 of his 7,000 donors for the period were from Minnesota, including a little more than 3,000 who gave less than $200.”
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“I wonder what the Republican Party’s talking points will be now that they’ve found out that more Minnesotans supported Al Franken than Norm Coleman?” said Franken spokeswoman Jess McIntosh.
Enter the maestro!
Mark Drake, a spokesman for the Minnesota GOP, stuck to his original point: “Al Franken may not like it, but the fact is that overwhelming majority of his donors come from outside Minnesota.”
So quick…like a mongoose’s final blow, Mark Drake, in mere seconds redefines the English language. A new epoch has begun!
Before: money given to political campaigns was called “money” and the people who gave that money were called “people“.
Now: no difference at all between pieces of paper and living human beings!
Yes Mark, moneypeople. I am sure this is merely the first of a whole litany of exciting and novel political newspeak. Funny thing that word…always reminded me of newspeak. I’ll write more on newspeak on Monday.
BONUS: The picture links to an MPR story on the CD-ROM that Drake and MN GOP distributed on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Remember this?
Problem was that the CD-ROM submitted data back to MN GOP servers without notifying the user. Drake’s response? The user should assume data is being collected.
Just like how poor Winston assumed Big Brother was watching him through the telescreen.
Mr. Drake, you are a delight.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
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