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Offline formerlurker

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Barney Frank Calls Out Republican Senator: Stop Using ‘Weasel Words’
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:31:58 PM »
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Barney Frank Calls Out Republican Senator: Stop Using ‘Weasel Words’

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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/25/1232521/barney-franks-calls-out-republican-senator-stop-using-weasel-words/

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HUTCHISON: I’m very worried about this. I’m very worried. I want to know a whole lot more about what these first emails really were and did it really trigger an FBI investigation of the CIA director and a low level and it wasn’t raised to a higher level? I mean, if anybody is investigating the director of the CIA, the President of the United States should know immediately, and I feel like a, we don’t know enough, and, b, I have great concerns about a lot of this.

FRANK: Are you suggesting there was some coverup, that the FBI are playing games? I think we ought to be explicit about this. I’m troubled by the implication of your statement and are you suggesting that something wasn’t legitimate here? Because that would trouble me.

HUTCHISON: I’m suggesting that I have great concerns about the legitimacy of…

FRANK: Excuse me, “great concerns” is kind of a weasel word….

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021880209


Great concerns = two words,  which one is weasel?    great or concerns.

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Re: Barney Frank Calls Out Republican Senator: Stop Using ‘Weasel Words’
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2012, 12:46:20 PM »
From the party that brings us the undefined and fundamentally meaningless BS phrases of "Fair share" and "Living wage," no less...
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Re: Barney Frank Calls Out Republican Senator: Stop Using ‘Weasel Words’
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2012, 12:55:56 PM »
Like Hillary saying "willing suspension of disbelief"? 
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Re: Barney Frank Calls Out Republican Senator: Stop Using ‘Weasel Words’
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2012, 12:59:45 PM »
And maybe Bill saying.you have to to know what the meaning of IS is....
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Re: Barney Frank Calls Out Republican Senator: Stop Using ‘Weasel Words’
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2012, 01:12:56 PM »
Weasel words:  "I want 40% off the rentboy action in my basement and six freebies a week."
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Re: Barney Frank Calls Out Republican Senator: Stop Using ‘Weasel Words’
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2012, 02:25:02 PM »
Oh....my bad.
I thought that by weasel words someone had said barney frank democrat in the same sentence.
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