Reply #432: "cold" "hawk" those are the propaganda words "nuclear" and "pander" are shock words

[McCamy Taylor]

Ask yourself "Would Bill Moyers use them?" If Bill Moyers would not use them---at least not without clarification or not in an interview in which he asks the subject to respond---then their is something questionable about there use.

I remember what commentators used to do. They did not talk like shock jocks on the radio. They described actions. They did not characterize using strings of adjectives like "cold" "nuclear" hawk". I guess we can blame people like Gore Vidal and Hunter S. Thompson---except that Vidal and Thompson were brilliant writers who knew how to use shocking language to make valid points.

Now we have a nation of Vidal and Thompson wannabes who attempt to ape them, but they do not have the skill to use words as the master used them. When they toss out shocking words, they sound like teenagers trying to impress each other. Or like third string propaganda writer for some second rate fascist regime in a backwater island country in the middle of nowhere.