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Essay:Best New Conservative Words (view source)
Revision as of 20:41, April 1, 2012
, 20:41, April 1, 2012useful idiot: 1920. Sample usage: There are not as many useful idiots on college campuses for the Obama reelection campaign in 2012 as there were in 2008, & it's doubtful he can fill a stadium rally
|1980s
|1980s
|popularized by President Ronald Reagan as the approach to use towards communist [[deceit]]
|popularized by President Ronald Reagan as the approach to use towards communist [[deceit]]
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|useful idiot
|1920<ref>[http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=135140 Attributed originally to Lenin], but since used by others like [[Nobel Prize]] winner (Literature) Doris Lessing to describe how she was manipulated by the [[communists]]: “I was taken around and shown things as a ‘useful idiot’... that’s what my role was. I can’t understand why I was so gullible.” [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/07/100624_doc_useful_idiots_lenin.shtml]
|Sample usage: "There are not as many useful idiots on college campuses for the Obama reelection campaign in 2012 as there were in 2008, and it's doubtful he can fill a stadium rally unless the campaign pays students to attend."
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|ugly duckling
|ugly duckling