Posted on 12/13/2016 6:10:59 AM PST by artichokegrower
The socialist essayist and novelist George Orwell by 1944 grew depressed that as a cost for the defeat of the Axis Powers the Allies had empowered an equally nightmarish monster in the Soviet Union.
Since his days fighting for the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, the left-wing Orwell had become an increasingly outspoken enemy of Communism. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, when Stalin renounced all his wartime assurances and steamrolled Eastern Europe, Orwell came to see state socialism under authoritarian auspices as the greatest threat to human freedom. It was not as if right-wing dictators were not equally lethal, but the inclusion of the words socialist and republic in a left-wing tyrants official lexicon tended to fool millions.
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And never referred to as hate crimes
Another great piece by VDH.
“Orwellian” perfectly describes the modern Left, the Media, and, and the Bat-Eared Bolshevik’s disaster of a Presidency.
More recently, fake news did not mean promulgating the lie Hands up, dont shoot, doctoring George Zimmermans 911 call, or insisting on national TV that the Benghazi attacks were spontaneous riots sparked by a right-wing American-based video maker, who, for his provocations, was perp-walked and jailed on trumped-up charges of parole violations. RELATED: Which Fake News? Fake news certainly does not denote the decades-long myth that the hard-Communist and pro-Castro presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was emblematic of the right-wing haters of Texas, or the fantasy mythography of Barack Obamas Dreams from My Father passed off as an autobiographical memoir.
Instead, a supposed epidemic of fake news became a means to explain how Donald Trump, the supposedly incompetent buffoon, defeated the polished sure winner Hillary Clinton who at one time in 2008 presented herself as a heroic stateswoman who had flown into Bosnia while under sniper fire."
Wonderful.
Ping.
Bookmarked. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, you know.
A terrific column.
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