"Walking Back"

Sometimes new buzzwords make me ill. The one that I am currently rampaging against is “walk back” which is a clever euphemism used when someone should retract, correct, or apologize for a statement, yet is not willing to publicly accept that they made an incorrect or stupid statement.

I get the sense that this administration will be doing this so often they needed a term that makes correcting yourself seem like a fun exercise. Bunch of liars and/or idiots.

Here are some uses I have seen:

It was President Barack Obama who suggested the visit after walking back the remarks he had made at a press conference last week.

And over the past several days, both the White House and PhRMA have offered a series of sometimes conflicting accounts of what happened in an attempt to walk back the story.

this may be the first sign that the administration is trying, as Sen. Jim DeMint put it, to “walk back” its support for Zelaya.