Posted on 07/18/2012 7:09:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
If a story won’t go away ABC, CBS, NBC come up with a white wash plan,but it’s not working.
Have become cheerleaders for him? They have been cheerleaders from the beginning. Especially Letterman
“...Sununu may have overshot his target.”
It is IMPOSSIBLE to ‘overshoot’ in condemning “O’s” idiotic statement about successful business owners.
Do the folks at NBC, CBS, and ABC ever wonder why the American people don't trust them?
Do the network news people understand that in 20 years - when most of the people who lived with an honest press are gone - that they'll be the punch line of jokes?
The press threw away so much for so little. For nothing.
The GOP is insane if they don't air commercials constantly beginning with the absurd statements, followed by a quote from the novel "1984."
Different quote from 1984 in each commercial.
The particularities of Newspeak make it impossible to translate most older English (oldspeak) texts into the language; the introduction of the Declaration of Independence, for instance, can be translated only into a single word: crimethink.
Spirits of totalitarians couldn't stop Orwell from writing 1984....nothing could stop him. Thank God.
Thanks for the link:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/section11.rhtml
These words are the official slogans of the Party, and are inscribed in massive letters on the white pyramid of the Ministry of Truth, as Winston observes in Book One, Chapter I. Because it is introduced so early in the novel, this creed serves as the reader’s first introduction to the idea of doublethink. By weakening the independence and strength of individuals’ minds and forcing them to live in a constant state of propaganda-induced fear, the Party is able to force its subjects to accept anything it decrees, even if it is entirely illogical —for instance, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of waging war, the Ministry of Love is in charge of political torture, and the Ministry of Truth is in charge of doctoring history books to reflect the Party’s ideology.
That the national slogan of Oceania is equally contradictory is an important testament to the power of the Party’s mass campaign of psychological control. In theory, the Party is able to maintain that “War Is Peace” because having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united. “Freedom Is Slavery” because, according to the Party, the man who is independent is doomed to fail. By the same token, “Slavery Is Freedom,” because the man subjected to the collective will is free from danger and want. “Ignorance Is Strength” because the inability of the people to recognize these contradictions cements the power of the authoritarian regime.
Emphasis is mine.
The application to current events is scarily dead on.
"Freedom Is Slavery” because, according to the Party, the man who is independent is doomed to fail."
But it just isn’t in his nature.
That's because it's above his pay grade.
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