The Bush Administrations' Orwellian Aspects

News and Opinion for Democrats Against Bush -- Part I a

Bush Administration Morphs Into "Big Brother"

"... Despite the best efforts of America's would-be Ministry of Truthsters to bedazzle and bamboozle the American people, the plain light of reality seems to be shining through."

Newsday.com

Bush & Co. Use the Orwell Sales Strategy

James P. Pinkerton

October 14, 2003

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Excerpt--

There's nothing like a war to bring out the inner George Orwell in a government. In ways little and small, Uncle Sam has been morphing into Big Brother - spinning the news, even, apparently, manufacturing news.

Yesterday, the Gannett News Service reported that 11 different U.S. newspapers had unwittingly printed identical five-paragraph letters-to-the- editor from soldiers in Iraq. ...One soldier said he hadn't even seen the letter before it appeared in his hometown paper.

Somewhere, Orwell's ghost is smiling grimly. In his novel "1984," the British writer imagined a Ministry of Truth that would be responsible for manufacturing news of victories and triumphs. Now, it's no longer fiction; it's your tax dollars at work.

Another Orwellian concept was "doublethink," defined as the ability "to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed." ...

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vppin3494396oct14,0,7265251.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

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