Syntax, Disassembled By Eugene Robinson

President Bush’s misadventures with the dictionary are legendary, and they’re the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps my favorite classic came while Bush was trying to sell his Social Security program in Upstate New York, and he uttered this timeless sentence: “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

The frightening thing is that we all understood what he meant. We even understood him when he made his recent assertion about the imprisoned evildoers at Guantanamo Bay, that they are “people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble.” Before you could wonder where they were getting their hands on the screwdrivers and wrenches, he added, “That means not tell the truth.”

No, it doesn’t, Mr. President. But never mind.