Obama's Corruption of the English Language Comes Right From Orwell's "1984"

[mick silver]

This story appears in the March 3, 2014 issue of Forbes.
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The late, famed English author of 1984 and Animal Farm would be astonished that the 1984 phenomenon of Newspeak–freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength–is thriving today, not only in authoritarian/totalitarian regimes, which is what he expected, but also in the world’s leading democracy, the U.S.
Politicians are always trying to put the best face on unpleasant occurrences–what we call spin. But nothing comes close to the White House response to a study from the Congressional Budget Office that by 2024 ObamaCare will cost the economy the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs.
Hallelujah!, proclaimed White House mouthpiece Jay Carney. This is great news because it means people won’t be in jobs they don’t really like. Now they can dream of better things and, possessing health insurance that’s being paid for by working taxpayers, can search for something better without having to worry about access to medic


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Unemployment is liberating!
Employment is wage slavery!
It’s no surprise that the New York Times obediently parroted this piece of Obamaspeak, declaring, “That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law. Of course, Republicans immediately tried to brand the findings as ‘devastating’ and stark evidence of President Obama’s health care reform as a failure and a job killer. It is no such thing. … The [CBO] report is about the choices workers can make when they are no longer tethered to an employer because of health benefits.”
Maybe the Times can mull these possible Newspeak slogans: “The Internet is good for newspapers!” “No newspapers means liberation for forests! More forests means less global warming!For more from this issue’s Fact and Comment see here: A New Master Mystery Writer Emerges (http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2014/02/12/a-new-master-mystery-writer-emerges/)

[Ponce]

And here I was thinking that I was the one killing the gringo language everytime that I wrote something hahahaha, feel better now.

V

[Glass]

yes the world has its head stuck up it's arse.

I was looking at that story of the Giraffe in Denmark. Some tool in brussels, an un-elected tool stipulated that animals in zoo's cannot breed to closely with their genetic lineage. So the answer was to shoot the giraffe and then disembowel it on TV. No amount of reasoning can justify this. Why not just not let it breed? Why not exchange it to another zoo that can take it? Why not put it out to pasture? No need to kill the damn thing, because we screwed up and provided it with too small a gene pool. You can see where that is all going. No logic, no morality and no ethics. That leaves butchery. Nothing else can cope in the face of that insanity.

[Cebu_4_2]

yes the world has its head stuck up it's arse.

I was looking at that story of the Giraffe in Denmark. Some tool in brussels, an un-elected tool stipulated that animals in zoo's cannot breed to closely with their genetic lineage. So the answer was to shoot the giraffe and then disembowel it on TV. No amount of reasoning can justify this. Why not just not let it breed? Why not exchange it to another zoo that can take it? Why not put it out to pasture? No need to kill the damn thing, because we screwed up and provided it with too small a gene pool. You can see where that is all going. No logic, no morality and no ethics. That leaves butchery. Nothing else can cope in the face of that insanity.

I read that story, thought it was pretty sick. They should also allow videos of meat processing plants, but that can get you killed.