Liberal obfuscation

Liberal obfuscation refers to the tendency of liberals to cloak misrepresentations of controversial issues, often by employing spin or excessive wordiness.

Examples of liberal obfuscation include:

• To cloak the idea that abortion carries a greater risk of breast cancer than childbirth, it is phrased as, "Abortion fails to provide the decrease in risk that giving birth provides."^[1]
• Instead of admitting that Democrats were wrong in opposing the Gulf War, John Kerry stated, "There is not a right or wrong here. There was a correctness in the president's judgment about timing. But that does not mean there was an incorrectness in the judgment other people made about timing. ... Again and again and again in the debate, it was made clear that the vote of the U.S. Senate and the House on the authorization of immediate use of force on Jan. 12 was not a vote as to whether or not force should be used."
• Instead of apologizing for offensive statements, liberals will rely on their friends and supporters to claim that the statements were "misrepresented." For example, when Michelle Obama said that "for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country," it was widely regarded as an unpatriotic or anti-American statement. The New Republic columnist Ed Kilgore, however, jumped to her defense by saying that her statement had been distorted and taken out of context.^[2]
• Instead of utilizing a straightforward understanding of the Second Amendment, liberals make highly convoluted and wordy arguments in order to make it seem to allow heavy gun control.

• Liberal style
• Liberal wordiness

1. ↑ See Talk:liberal denial.
2. ↑ [1], New Republic, Michelle Obama: Iron Woman, June 30, 2008

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