11.17.2002

"...in a disillutory fashion..."
-Senior Advisor to the President, Karl Rove

There I was thinking a pol used a word with which I was unfamiliar.
I'm sure he didn't say desultory. What is this word? I had to look it up. After several minutes I surmised that Mr. Rove, to my disillusionment, simply invented the word.
Apparently George W's penchant for semantic butchery is contagious, just as Clinton's people shared his speech mannerism of bouncing a pursed right hand to mark nearly every point. Because disillutory is not an acceptable variant of disillusion.

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