This is hilarious and sad.
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George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 has topped Amazon’s best seller list just three days after Kellyanne Conway used the phrase “alternative facts” in an interview on Sunday’s Meet the Press.
“You’re saying it’s falsehoods,” she said to host Chuck Todd, who asked her why White House Press Secretary was lying about the crowd size at Donald Trump’s inauguration. “And they’re giving -—Sean Spicer, our press secretary — gave alternative facts.”
The connection between “alternative facts” and Orwell’s 1949 classic was made on CNN’s Reliable Sources, where Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty said, “Alternative facts is a George Orwell phrase.”
Readers began comparing “alternative facts” to Orwell’s concept of “Newspeak,” the language of Oceania designed to limit the freedom of thought. Orwell’s “Principles of Newspeak” further explain that the language “was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.”
‘1984’ hits No. 1 on Amazon after Kellyanne Conway’s ‘alternative facts’ quote
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Trumpsters are on board with "Alternative Facts." As matter of fact, they remind me of the masses in 1984, who were nothing more working drones who had been overcome by the governments propaganda. And lived their lives in a daze of the falsehoods the government fed them to keep them in control.
Look, they all think alike and post alike. Is there a thing called "original thought"?
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George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 has topped Amazon’s best seller list just three days after Kellyanne Conway used the phrase “alternative facts” in an interview on Sunday’s Meet the Press.
“You’re saying it’s falsehoods,” she said to host Chuck Todd, who asked her why White House Press Secretary was lying about the crowd size at Donald Trump’s inauguration. “And they’re giving -—Sean Spicer, our press secretary — gave alternative facts.”
The connection between “alternative facts” and Orwell’s 1949 classic was made on CNN’s Reliable Sources, where Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty said, “Alternative facts is a George Orwell phrase.”
Readers began comparing “alternative facts” to Orwell’s concept of “Newspeak,” the language of Oceania designed to limit the freedom of thought. Orwell’s “Principles of Newspeak” further explain that the language “was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.”
‘1984’ hits No. 1 on Amazon after Kellyanne Conway’s ‘alternative facts’ quote
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Trumpsters are on board with "Alternative Facts." As matter of fact, they remind me of the masses in 1984, who were nothing more working drones who had been overcome by the governments propaganda. And lived their lives in a daze of the falsehoods the government fed them to keep them in control.
Look, they all think alike and post alike. Is there a thing called "original thought"?
