Progressives and their Orwellian Newspeak

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by James in Political Commentary

Reminiscent of the authoritarian regime in George Orwell’s 1984, the Obama Administration introduced some “newspeak” terms into our political debate earlier this year.  The “war on terror” became an “overseas contingency action” and “acts of terrorism” became “man caused disasters.”
Seemingly innocuous changes in statements appeared to do no harm at the time.  Now, however, when [...]