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To: Fishrrman

‘George Orwell must be rolling in his grave.’

I doubt it, Eric Blair was a dyed-in-the-wool socialist - he’d probably agree.


33 posted on 09/26/2007 4:45:13 AM PDT by britemp
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To: britemp

Yes, Orwell/Eric Blair was a dedicated socialist, BUT, he detested cant and political correctness of any kind, so I doubt he could have viewed this kind of virulent revisionism with anything but contempt. Sure, he might have gone for a milder revision of the history of the English sea dogs vs. the Spanish Armada that gave more weight to the role of weather and circumstance over English heroism, but he was not the type to accept Muslim propaganda about a fictitious role for the Ottoman Empire where there was none.


35 posted on 09/26/2007 7:12:39 AM PDT by Enchante (Democrat terror-fighting motto: "bleat, cheat, retreat & defeat, we suck on liberal teat")
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