Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.08 10/3/83; site psuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!akgua!psuvax!zaccone From: zaccone@psuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Reagan Top Doublespeaker Message-ID: <431@psuvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jan-84 07:01:37 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax.431 Posted: Sat Jan 28 07:01:37 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 02:24:36 EST Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 32 The following article appeared in the New York Times on November 21, 1983, but it seems very timely now with the State of the Union speech, and Reagan's speech announcing that he will run again. ----------- REAGAN TOP 'DOUBLESPEAKER' DENVER, Nov. 20 (UPI) - The National Council of Teachers of English has awarded its 1983 Doublespeak Award to President Reagan. William Lutz of Rutgers University, chairman of the council's Committee on Public Doublespeak, told the group's 73d annual convention here that Mr. Reagan had been voted the award for naming "the new MX intercontinental ballistic missile the 'Peacekeeper.'" The President was also cited for his statement that "a vote against MX production today is a vote against arms control tomorrow." Mr. Lutz said the award, presented annually since 1974, was "an ironic tribute to American public figures who have perpetrated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing or self-contradictory." Second place went to Col. Frank Horton of the Air Force, commander of the Grand Forks Air Base in North Dakota, for describing a Titan 2 missile as "a very large, potentially disruptive re-entry system." -------------- -- Rick Zaccone {allegra, burdvax, ihnp4}!psuvax!zaccone