Why Language Matters

A relatively obscure story that should be grabbing more attention received some airplay today. Manuel Zelaya, the deposed Honduran aspiring strongman has crept back into the country whose democratic process and institutions he was trying to subvert. He is sheltering in the embassy of Latin power Brazil, after he failed in his attempt with Hugo Chavez's backing at making himself ruler for life in the mold of a Castro or Chavez himself. The world's diplomats, the US State Department at the behest of our President, and the dinosaur media are all referring to the wannabe dictator as the victim of a coup. Zelaya and his cadre of Marxists attempted an anti-Constitutional maneuver to extend his term against the will of the legislature, the courts, and most of the people of Honduras. Zelaya was the one attempting the coup, but in most of the world, this tyrant is the aggrieved party. That is how language is tortured to turn truth on its head.