New Addition To The DFL Dictionary

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One of this blog’s most enduringly-popular features is the “DFL Dictionary“.

First written in 2002, it’s been updated bit by bit over the last nine years, to serve as the greatest single lexicon of DFL-to-human and Democrat-to-citizen translation in existence.

And we have a new entry:

Fact-checking:  Noun: To check the congruency of a Republican’s statement with Democrat conventional wisdom.   Verb: The act of consulting the list of Democrat chanting points for such congruence.

Apropos not much.

30 thoughts on “New Addition To The DFL Dictionary”

  1. Yeah, plus independent media and a literal reading of the law. But then you wingnuts left the reality-based culture a long time ago.

    Here’s a freebie for you loonies: Obama wants to cut 99 percent of Medicare and give the money to free-range unicorn ranchers. Vote Romney!

  3. Ignore Clown. He’s the fellow who looked at Biden and thought he belonged a heartbeat from the presidency.
    Here’s WaPo fact checker Glenn Kessler fact-checking a speech Romney has not made:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/previewing-the-facts-in-mitt-romneys-acceptance-speech/2012/08/29/5c23357a-f21e-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_blog.htm

    It includes such masterful fact-checkery as this:
    “But The Fact Checker considers this a One Pinocchio violation because it is simplistic to pin all of the debt increase on Obama’s policies. The debt has gone up because of mismatch between government spending and revenues — and the explosion of spending and decline in revenues both began at the start of the recession, a full year before Obama took office.”

    It’s not Obama’s fault that the debt increased. “The debt has gone up because of mismatch between government spending and revenues”.
    Sheesh.

  4. There’s a troll over on another site who is trying the same trick clown is trying (and failing at) here, making a stupid statement ostensibly as a republican.

    Kinda makes you wonder where the master web site is where all these lefties get their talking points.

    Talk about a hive mind.

  5. Ah, yes, like Talking Points Memo. If you go over there (I don’t recommend it, but if you’re curious it’s not hard to find) you will find most of the posts today are variations on “Paul Ryan: Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire”.

    But that’s not all. They unintentionally parody themselves too with headlines like “Will the Liar Thing Break Through?”, as if writing the same fallacious criticism time and again will (a) convince people that it’s true, and (b) become true.

    But it’s not all political. Sometimes the “reality-based community” has to take some time out and explore “Science!” with posts like “Mars Curiosity Rover Drives, ‘Tags’ Surface Of Mars With Wheel Graffiti”. Hard hitting AND educational!

  6. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

    Yeah, there’s a reason the people you’re against sound the same, wingnuts. Angryclown does admire your powers of memorization, however.

    “Every Good Boy Denies Global Warming.”

  7. Poor Bozo- another swing and a miss. Nobody denies it, just what causes it. Try and keep up.

  8. There are some conservtives who believe global warming is real, but not caused by human activity.
    There are some conservatives who think it is real, is caused by people, but that the costs of stopping it are higher than the costs of letting it continue.
    There are some conservatives who think the whole thing is a statistical abberation or hoax.
    But every liberal thinks that global warming is real, that it is caused by man, that it has to be stopped, and the way to stop it is:
    A) Higher taxes
    B) Government control of the economy
    Every
    Single
    One.

  9. Angryclown wouldn’t know. He’s a member of the Angryclown party, population: one. And the Angryclown party realizes you lockstep wingnuts think global warming is a trick by the Devil to turn America away from Tax-Cutting Jesus.

  10. You were awfully proud to have Biden elected VP four years ago, Mr. “Party of One”.
    “I’m a scientist! Quickly, now, give your money to my politician friend here! Hurry you fool! Can’t you see my labcoat? Quickly! THE FATE OF MANKIND DEPENDS ON IT!!’

  11. Weird, can’t find the post in which Angryclown praised Joe Biden.

    Oh right, you’re pulling that out of your ass. Nevermind.

  12. Okay, AC. I’ll cop to spinning your words. You’ve never been a fan of the Biden. I think you hoped that Obammy would replace him with Hillary. But you voted for Obama- Biden, didn’t you?
    You do know that Delaware is smaller than most U.S. counties and has barely a million people in it? And that “Slow Joe” gets most of his political contributions from the trial layers who want to sue everyone, everywhere, over mesothelioma?

  13. You must be thinking of someone else. Angryclown has not shared his opinion of the vice president hereabouts. You know, because he’s the VICE PRESIDENT. Nobody cares.

    Angryclown will share the observation that he’s smarter than Sarah Palin. But then, so is Trig Palin.

    By the way, how bad was Clint Eastwood? That was embarrassing.

  14. Clint was great!
    I now realize that Timothy Oliphant was imitating Clint in the Deadwood series.
    Maybe Erkle will endorse Obama.

  15. I look forward to Angryclown making a public speech as an octagenarian. I hope he brings a hanky to dab his chin.

  16. Biden is really embarrassing, so “no one cares”. Riiiight.

    Great argument, angryclown, but I expected more from a “really intelligent” member of the “reality-based community”. Ha!

  17. The International Brotherhood of Dyspeptic Klowns will set Angryclown adrift on an ice floe (assuming Romney loses and there is sea ice in the future) long before that, my little tadpole. Watching Clint last night was like what it must have been to see Babe Ruth play for the Boston Braves. Sad.

  18. The fact is that Obama is a socialist, communist, far left wing whacko.

    Everybody knows it, and for the Dems to try to spin otherwise is just futile.

  21. Let’s try this again to see which words you are filtering out . . . per Rove’s instructions?

    Obama is a socialist!

  22. Obama has said that his religion says that a guy born 2000 years ago was killed, became alive again, and that somehow this resulted in forgiveness of the as-yet-unborn Obama’s transgressions against a fearful sky-god.
    Obama also says his beliefs are reflected in his public policies.
    I’m sure the Politifact people will be right on that.

  23. Sanity,

    Don’t flatter yourself. I don’t “filter out” anything. You wrote something that tripped the mod queue. And when I’m busy at work, I am not constantly approving comments.

    Your delusions of adequacy are funny, but seriously, get a grip.

  24. Don’t fsck with Mitch, Santy Claus. He’s a very intelligent man. At some point a giant rock fell on his head and made him a far-right conservative loony, but he’s still very, very bright. Mitch is to be pitied, like King Tut on Batman, not reviled.

  25. Jonah Goldberg “fact checks” Slow Joe Biden:

    . . . Biden also seems driven in no small part by a staggering intellectual insecurity. The figurative evidence room is full of examples. The most notorious comes from Biden’s 1988 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He had been hounded about his law-school record and plagiarism problems (among other things, he copied five pages from a law journal for a 15-page paper and then claimed it was a footnoting error), and he was asked a question about his academic record by a resident of New Hampshire.

    He responded: “I think I have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect.” He went on:

    I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in the law, I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school, and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international moot-court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political-science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits — only needed 123 credits. And I would be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours.

    Most of these statements were outright lies. Biden graduated from college with just one degree, not three. Yes, he did win a moot-court competition, but he graduated 76th in his class of 85. He wasn’t the outstanding political-science student. And why is he still talking about how many credits he graduated with? Who does that?

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/315700/great-moments-vice-presidential-lying-jonah-goldberg

  26. Wow, Terry and the Pirates, 1988. Only 24 years ago, when St. Ronnie was still in office, trying to figure out what happened with that money he passed to the “moderates” in Iran. That’s pretty relevant.

  27. So you think Biden has changed, Mr. Clown? I can find a lot of more recent examples of Biden’s deep and abiding idiocy, if you like.
    Obama’s first real decision he made as the Dem standard bearer was to pick Biden for VP. God only knows why. I bet he regrets it now, but of course ol’ Slow Joe is acting like he always has. Maybe Hillary recommended him.
    You must be so proud!

  30. Oh, “Sanity” – I found part of the problem. And it’s a feature, not a bug.

    A week or so back, you tried to submit a comment with a link in it. It tripped the mod queue. Then you submitted the same link again, very shortly thereafter, in a comment with no other text.

    This was read as “Spam”, and put both posts into my “Spam” queue. I just found them.

    So there’s a word to the wise; don’t act like a spambot.

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