Twisting His Words

Doonesbury once said, when caught in a lie in his strip, said, "I'm a cartoonist. I don't need to stick to the truth. He certainly hasn't in this strip, where he claims Newt Gingrich promoted "hate speech" by "instructing Republican candidates to 'smear' opponents with words like 'sick, disgrace, corrupt, cheat, decay, pathetic, radical, traitor, greed, anti-family,' and so on. There's only one trouble with that: he didn't say that. He just told them to stop using "weasel-words" when referring to their opponents, and use REAL words to describe them. Every word mentioned can aptly be applied to just about every Democrat candidate I know. He just told them to do what I do all the time. Use REAL words, not "weasel-words." The Democrats call that "hate speech." Can you remember the words DEMOCRATS use to describe their opponents? They're much worse. (Doonesbury)