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November 12, 2008
Winston Smith Goes to Work for Obama Camp
In the prescient 1984, Winston Smith's job was to rewrite history to fit current government policy, tossing anything that the State wanted forgotten down the memory hole. In the Internet age, this task is all too easy, as Obama's henchmen have proven by replacing the ominous "agenda" pages from their Change.gov site with vague mush.
Agenda items had included issues like gun control, a drastic unemployment-inducing hike in the minimum wage, and throwing a monkey wrench into NAFTA. As LT Nixon asks,
Remember when millions of Americans who work for a living had to unite under the NRA lobby to prevent gun control weenies from labeling them a bunch of brain-dead, violent hicks? Remember the whole "living wage" debate in the mid-90s designed to cripple small businesses? Remember the anti-free trade movement which culminated in the destruction of downtown Seattle circa 1999?
This could be an encouraging sign that Obama really did magically change from a radical to a moderate during the last few months of his campaign. But CNET warns:
The ephemeral nature of Web publishing does raise some serious issues: if a president-elect circulates a physical press release promising to do something, and then changes his mind, there's a paper trail. That doesn't exist when files are added to a Web site and then quietly removed over a weekend.
You have to wonder what other promises might vanish into the Internet ether — and why Obama should stop with promises. Instead of throwing his many unseemly associates under the bus, a new cabinet-level Department of Official Reality might erase them from history, Soviet style. Given their record of compliance with communist China, I'm sure Google and Yahoo would be glad to offer technical expertise.
Hat tip: Four Horsemen of the Obacalypse.
Update:
There's an archived version of Chairman O's erased agenda here. On a tip from David P.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 12, 2008 8:37 AM
Comments
How soon before they shut down the Internet Archive that stores copies of old web pages?
Search ResultsInternet ArchiveNonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular " snapshots". The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage.
www.archive.org/ - 29k - Cached - Similar pages
Posted by: Name at November 12, 2008 9:53 AM
This weeks NewSpeak Dictionary word:
Youth League - Mandatory children's group under control of the Thought Police. Similar to the "Hitler Youth". Their member's primary task is to monitor the activities of their parents.
Posted by: Anonymous at November 12, 2008 10:36 AM
Rahm Emanuel (2008) = Emmanuel Goldstein (1984)
Posted by: Anonymous at November 12, 2008 11:24 AM
Obamajugend
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at November 12, 2008 11:24 AM
"A leopard doesn't change his stripes."
Al Gore
Posted by: JamesJ at November 12, 2008 11:46 AM
I,ll do the 3 STOOGES rotine and poke my fingers in big brothers eyes NYUK NYUK NYUK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at November 12, 2008 1:59 PM
Where are Shana, Fez and Hate Noises? Why are they not here to defend their leader?
Are they afraid, or are they RACISTS?
Posted by: KHarn at November 12, 2008 4:34 PM
