I'm dying laughing, here.

[theweaselking]

Dear WingNutDaily columnist:

Perhaps, before attempting to use Orwell in an argument, you should read Orwell.

Just maybe.

Because, I mean, trying to argue that Barack Obama is the Emmanuel Goldstein to his party's Big Brother state? And arguing, repeatedly, that this is a PERFECT comparison and that Orwell was a visionary for writing about it so clearly?

Wow.

Just, wow.

Comments

[anivair.livejournal.com]

It's amazing. It's like the right is parodying itself for us now ...

[anivair.livejournal.com]

And that reads like the internet meme about how the only apostle fit for employment was Judas. "This Goldstein" figure sure was in the wrong." Really? Wow.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

He left the union once he realised their true goals, he put in a fair day's work for a fair day's wages, and he didn't rock the boat! What's not to love about him?

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

How does that one go? I don't think I've heard it.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

http://business.inquirer.net/money/columns/view/20080318-125534/Performance-rating-of-the-Apostles

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I like Homage to Catalonia, myself.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[viloki9.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy his books, but honestly he's one of the best essay/short story writers I have ever read. He's just so concise.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Who, Orwell, or the WingNutDaily guy?

[viloki9.livejournal.com]

Orwell

Shooting an Elephant:
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/

Politics and the English Language:
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

[dscotton.livejournal.com]

Washington's article reads like a kid trying to BS his way through a high school English paper. It's like he picked a character who hasn't entered popular culture to "prove" that he read the book, but then with his actual writing goes on to thoroughly demonstrate that he didn't.

[sanityimpaired.livejournal.com]

I was going to comment that using 1984 to attack GW's successor might just possibly get turned around on you, given how accurately it describes GW's presidency, but that only works if the author actually read the book.

So, NM.