You’ve got to love the Republican Party:
[A] leading Republican appears to have just inadvertently admitted that the GOP’s spin machine set up to counter Barack Obama during the convention is a propaganda machine spewing nothing but lies.
The GOPer in question is Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams, who accidentally made the admission when describing the GOP’s war room in Denver set up to hammer Obama during convention week.
Wadhams described the GOP’s outfit thusly to the Denver Post: “Just consider this the Ministry of Truth.”
Well, yes, that is an appropriate name for it. After all, as Eric Kleefield notes:
Um, as anybody who has ever read George Orwell knows, the Ministry of Truth exists to disseminate false propaganda about how great the ruling regime is, continuously rewriting both history and the present-day facts in order to maintain total control over the population.
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation,” Orwell wrote. “These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
Which is, of course, a perfect metaphor for today’s Republican Party. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
(Via.)
You know, you would HOPE that someone in Dick Wadham’s position would have actually read and remember 1984, but frankly I don’t have that much faith in the American educational system. Nor in a politician’s understanding of literature. So he went for “clever” and hit “fool”. Dufus.
I will say that it does seem these days that too many politicians, on both sides of the aisle, see 1984 as an instruction manual instead of a warning.
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Actually, Ron, I think you’re being too hard on him. He was being accurate.