Quick! Hide The Bong!

Amusing email on DRUDGE from the host of a MoveOn.org Supreme Court nominee party held over the weekend. Concerned because his party had been selected by the Washington Post for possible coverage by the paper, the host sent out an email to attendees:

The momentum is finally shifting away from extremism. We will not accept a [sic] extremist nominee.

Notice the language control: Call your enemies "extremists" so that, by definition, you are the normal ones.

This is not about conservatism vs liberalism or Republicans vs Democrats, this is all about extremism vs moderation and we're on the side of moderation.

Again, paint the enemy clearly, first. Remove all other labels so only the one you want remains.

Remember that last part, about moderation.

We don't want to come across as leftist, liberal activists. We want to come across as we are- regular folks who are finally saying enough is enough to the extremists....

Translation: they don't want to come across as they are.

...that we're not falling for their extremist rhetoric anymore and we're finally going to expend the effort necessary to get our country back.

If it's so "extremist" then how did more than half the electorate fall for it? Who is this new "they" that "fell" for their rhetoric?

They are "finally going to expend the effort?" What was 2004? A test? A warm-up? An "almost"? A mulligan?

Oh, because a photographer will be here, might I suggest we put away our ‘Bush is a Liar’ t-shirts. Let's look like they do.

So, the "extremists" regularly dress like they could appear in the paper, while "we" dress in witty t-shirts with pungent messages that apparently aren't newspaper ready. "We" need to control ourselves.

At least until after the paper leaves, then the Bush pinatas can come out.