Remember when President Obama rejected the dictionary definition of “tax” because it might undermine his push to socialize health care? Well, apparently his whole administration is under orders to engage in the same kind of linguistic obfuscation.

On Christmas Day, an al Qaeda operative tried to blow up an airplane by igniting explosives in his underwear. Normal people call that terrorism. The Obama Justice Department calls it “the Christmas Day event at Detroit metro airport.”

Perhaps that explains why Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano briefly clung to the notion that “the system worked” in deterring the “man-caused disaster.”

Obama and his minions can spin the truth and pervert the dictionary all they want, but enlightened rednecks are not fooled. We are not amused, either.