{"id":62742,"date":"2011-07-26T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=62742"},"modified":"2026-08-09T19:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:04:50","slug":"the-uses-of-euphemism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=62742","title":{"rendered":"The Uses Of Euphemism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/the-uses-of-euphemism.php\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Johnson<\/a> of Powerline draws back the curtain on the Obamanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama\u2019s speech\u00a0last night was permeated with the deep dishonesty and poll-tested euphemisms that constitute his contribution to the debt ceiling debate. Here are a few of the euphemisms Obama has contributed: revenue (taxes), shared sacrifice (taxes), asking for something (taxes), millionaires and billionaires (taxes on individuals earning more than $200,000 a year or couples earning more than $250,000 a year), the balanced approach (taxes).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can tell when Obama is lying &#8212; his lips are moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Johnson of Powerline draws back the curtain on the Obamanation. Obama\u2019s speech\u00a0last night was permeated with the deep dishonesty and poll-tested euphemisms that constitute his contribution to the debt ceiling debate. Here are a few of the euphemisms Obama has contributed: revenue (taxes), shared sacrifice (taxes), asking for something (taxes), millionaires and billionaires (taxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412516,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62742\/revisions\/412516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}