Urban Meyer’s late Friday Twitter statement introduced rhetoric that would make George Orwell’s 1984 characters nod in recognition. My favorite, in a statement brimming with various pol-speak perversions of language, characterized Meyer’s bald-faced lies at Big 10 media day with the responsibility-sparing euphemism: “I deeply regret if I failed in my words.”
Consider the “if” placed ever so gingerly betwixt deep regret and failed. He was publicly exposed as a liar. Yet still throwing legalistic“ifs” around in the heart of his statement from the heart.
“I failed in my words.