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7. Ewmember when chief R pollster Frank Luntz said Orwell's 1984 was his favorite book?

Mon Sep 30, 2013, 03:49 PM

Sep 2013

That was really chilling, wasn't it?

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Orwellian inversion of the century: Republicans' use of the word "compromise" [View all] ProgressiveEconomist Sep 2013 OP

TRANSCRIPT: President Obama made the argument in the OP, and pointed ProgressiveEconomist Sep 2013 #8

For Republicans, 1984 is a how-to manual, not a cautionary tale. tanyev Sep 2013 #4

I think they are more like Animal Farm... yends21012 Sep 2013 #5

Or Bolsheviks of the estreme right. In service to their "revolution ProgressiveEconomist Sep 2013 #6