Now that NBC, Newsweek, CNN and the Los Angeles Times have decided that the civil war in Iraq should actually be called a civil war, the way is open for the MSM to call more things by their true names, rather than their Orwell names. What's the worst that could happen to the media -- Tony Snow has a hissy fit? Rove issues an access-fatwa?
The reclaiming of honest English should include some criteria for calling something "centrist" or "fringe."...
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