>I don't know exactly what moonbats are. From the way John used it I assume they are left wingers.
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>Dittoheads is a self-applied description of fans of the right wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. I don't know why they chose that term.
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>Spin doctors is a term I know. "Spin" means putting the best interpretation on news events, generally in a political context.

As I said, AKA propoganda

>Spin doctors are not MDs, just aides who rush into the room immediately following a political speech to put their spin on what was said. "What the President actually meant to say...." -- that's spin. So is "This shows the moral bankruptcy...." yada yada yada.

Oh I'm well aware what spin doctors are, and have been for years, and, of course, that they're not MDs. I was commenting on how we, Joe Public, were supposed to know the new buzz words in media-political circles, that were just thrown at us without any explanation. We have our fair share of them but I doubt you'd know Peter Mandelson et al.

Have you noticed that since GWB used the threatening expression "Make no mistake ..." when referring to Iraq, that has become a favoured expression?

His father made the expression "sooner rather than later" very popular when hinting when the 1st Gulf War might begin

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>Two of the ultimate spin doctors, James Carville and Mary Matalin, one liberal and one conservative, are actually married to each other.
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>>What are moonbats? I assume dittoheads is another word for "yes men" but I've never heard either expression before.
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>>These remind me of when the expression "spin doctors" first came out. Suddenly the news was assaulting us R,L and centre with the expression and we were expected to know what it meant, without anyone explaining. I've never figured how propoganda became "spin" or where doctors come into it.
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>>Another one, was "unilateral disarmament". Now it's OK for us with a smattering of Latin to figure this but the average Joe must have been wondering where the country of Unilatera was :-) Why they couldn't have just said "one-sided" or "solo" I don't know
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