reporting as always by my "washington post" colleagues. if, indeed, this is the direction the administration is going, and it's coming top-down, it suggests to me, frankly, that this is showing that republicans who have made political correctness, made hay out of political correctness for years turn out to be the snowflakest of the snowflakes when it comes to words that seem to defend their ideological sensibilities. you can disagree on policy, whether it has to do with health policy or transgender rights or words implicated on this list that's being reported out, but even if you're against transgender rights or against the idea of transgender identity, it is a thing, so to ban a word like that or to ban some of these other terms suggests something that's almost soviet in a way. you know, we'll see what happens as this story goes forward. >> patrick, it really smacks of control, control of people's thinking and action and perhaps even dismissal. if you don't see it, perhaps you