Rush Limbaugh, and others, like to say, “Words mean things,” but I’m not so sure anymore.

I read sentences like this in the Washington Post:

Kaine insisted he has always been open about his travels, despite the repeated refusals by his office to release a work schedule or an account of his party activities.

To a lot of people, that would refute the claim of being “open” about your travels, but to Kaine, there’s no contradiction.

It probably has something to do with the fact that Virginia has always been at war with Eastasia.