In all humility (er, attainable) I Was paying Attention; the degree of internal disingenuousness could hardly be Missed, you know.
Language Murder--flagged way-back-- escalated from the occasional hyperbole to become: the entire vocab. of pop-pols everywhen.

I Got the duplicitous-Quality, but who could extrapolate such an exponential Growth-rate, hmmm?
(Well except maybe ... Veblen, H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, Generation of Vipers Philip Wylie,
Ben Franklin {somewhat} and our recent Super-stars from George C. {Stuff!-Mensch} ... onwards to yesterday..)