I know it might seem like a platitude at this point to argue about Orwellian politics, but does anyone else find it a little too creepy how many times journalists seem to be breaking news on Obama by resorting to cached web pages?
Down below, I referred to evidence of Obama's ties to the New Party that had been erased, but recovered by Newsbusters via a cached page (via The Jawa Report). Then, today I saw the gang at The Jawa Report linked to an article that ACORN (the voter registration group now famous for getting one voter to register 72 times) also erased evidence of Obama's involvement in that group only to have it resurface thanks to The Cleaveland Leader tapping into cached pages.
Now, when people describe Orwellian politics, they usually aren't really talking about the plot 1984. They usually just mean scary, suspicious government behavior.
But the idea that people are actually erasing news articles and then replacing them with alternate stories is right out of the pages of Orwell's book. It's the job assigned to the book's protagonist Winston -- he spends all day cutting articles out of newspapers and rewriting them to favor Big Brother.
Add to that the fact that Obama will be running half-hour "infomercials" on our viewscreens...er...I mean televisions, and that he has his own satellite channel, and you start getting a pretty bleak picture.
Just remember...
Republicans are free like animals are free...
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