Catapulting the Propaganda

Someone from the Ministry of Truth in the Bush White House is very probably going to become a nonperson, in fact, a doubleplusungood nonperson in the next week if it hasn’t happened already. Of course, we will never know, because as a nonperson he never existed in the first place and any mention of him will slide down the memory hole just like the following statement President Bush made at one of those creepy Orwellian “Town Hall” meetings where the audience is carefully screened and the entire presentation scripted.

It seems this low-level functionary of the Outer Party forgot to delete the highlighted phrase on the speakwrite.

“Now, a personal savings account would be a part of a Social Security retirement system. It would be a part of what you would have to retire when you reach retirement age. As you -- as I mentioned to you earlier, we're going to redesign the current system. If you've retired, you don't have anything to worry about -- third time I've said that. (Laughter.) I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.)”



Dubya flinging the spin...

Yes, one can almost see the pneumatic tubes humming with frantic orders to “rectify” .

times 17.3.05 bb speech malreported iraq rectify

times 19.12.04 forecasts 3 yp 4th quarter 83 misprints verify current issue

times 14.12.04 miniplenty malquoted economy rectify

times 3.05.05 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling

times 24.05.05 bb speech malreported social security rectify

O’Brien or Big Brother could not have said it better…well, okay, they probably would have used grammatically correct English.


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