Via Jonathan Schwarz:
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said he thought Columbia’s invitation to Ahmadinejad was a mistake “because he comes literally with blood on his hands.”
Click here to read Orwell’s thoughts on the debasement of language in the service of politics. I’ll just note that when you’re as full of sh*t as Joe Lieberman is, such phrases come easily, as when he told an audience of 400 at the Arab American Institute, “We are quite literally brothers and sisters.” Or when he told a DLC conference that a WTO meeting in Seattle “will literally bring the world to our Pacific doorstep.” You mean the literal world, or our literal doorstep?
Feel free to add your favorite Liebermanisms in comments.