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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 11:46 AM
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Dick Wadhams: "Just consider this the Ministry of Truth"
Wow -- a leading Republican appears to have just inadvertently admitted that the GOP's spin machine set up to counter Barack Obama during the convention is a propaganda machine spewing nothing but lies.

The GOPer in question is Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams, who accidentally made the admission when describing the GOP's war room in Denver set up to hammer Obama during convention week.

Wadhams described the GOP's outfit thusly to the Denver Post: "Just consider this the Ministry of Truth."

Um, as anybody who has ever read George Orwell knows, the Ministry of Truth exists to disseminate false propaganda about how great the ruling regime is, continuously rewriting both history and the present-day facts in order to maintain total control over the population.

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation," Orwell wrote. "These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/whoops_top_republican_admits_t.php
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 11:56 AM
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1. Being a Republick, he was probably unaware of Orwell.
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eshfemme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 12:11 PM
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2. What a Freudian slip. I wish this was picked up on in the MSM because it's telling.
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