Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:43:03 +1100
From: Lorax <atc25-AT-student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Leftist?


> 
> Ben wrote:
> >Orwell is alive and well.  Politics is confusing, because polticians are
> bullshit artists, whose real aim is to obscure >all possibility of real
> meaning, to focus the public's attention on a 30 second infomercial.  The
> words we lose today >have lost all meaning, because they've raped and
> contorted into a meaningless mess.
> 
> Well it's funny you say that, because George Orwell was simply a pseudonym
> for another Mr. Blair - Eric Arthur.  And it seems to me that this more
> modern Mr. Blair who lives in number 10 is the most brilliant user of
> Newspeak and Doublethink in the history of British politics.  Phony Tony
> shapes and manipulates langauge in a way that's not been seen before in
> Blighty, and his form of pragmatic politics shifts so easily that it's hard
> to pin down exactly what he stands for.
> 
> Tony Blair - O'Brien incarnate - although not quite as smart.
> 
> colin
> 
> 
Personally he reminds me of a malevolent Armani clad Tellytubby.
Lorax
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