From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:06:01 -0400, Judy Folkenberg
 wrote:

>
>
>"David N. Barnett" wrote:
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>> >>Who or what is "Foggy Bottom?"
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>It's the State Department.  The building is located is a fairly low-lying area
of
>the District.
>
>Judy
>

The term "foggy bottom" as it applies to the State Dept. lost it
geographical connotation long, long ago.  For as long as I can remember the
term has been used by conservatives explicitly to characterize State Dept.
policies seen by them as not being sufficiently pro-American.

The classic example would be conservatives seeing a particular country as
deserving condemnation by the US, but not getting it because the people at
State
were too busy trying to smooth things over through diplomacy, which of
course conservatives see as wishy-washy, less than clear-cut and perhaps
bordering on the traitorous.

In short, the term foggy bottom is an epithet explicitly referring to State
Dept. policies as seen by conservatives. The term, after all, is common
jargon among conservatives, most of whom have never been to DC. When
Robertson used it,
he knew all of his followers would understand implicitly what was meant.

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