No President was closer to "Big Brother" than Obama

No President lied so continually, was adored by the mendacious press so absolutely and so obsequiously followed by the Socialist Democrats. Obama tried to centralized the economy through Obamacare and "Climate Change", rule by decree by allowing illegal hoards to invade, cover up his endless scandals and fuel hate riots based on his brand of racism. People were encouraged to inform on their neighbors of anti-Obama activity to the White House. There was even a womb to tomb, government ward cartoon character named Julia, who is also a lead personality in the novel, "1984". m/r

The Real Relevance of '1984' Today

By Roger Kimball January 28, 2017

... When I say that “Donald Trump” was responsible for the sudden and unexpected surge in sales of 1984, what I mean is that the media seized upon a remark by Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway in response to the controversy over the number of people who viewed Trump’s inauguration a week ago.  Trump opined that one and a half million people attended the festivities. The media laughed at that number, claiming it was much lower. Sean Spicer, in his first appearance as the administration’s press secretary, insisted that Trump was right and that, in fact, “that was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe.” The media went to town on that, emitting dozens of articles with graphs, charts, statistics, and expert testimony. According to their count, what Trump, and Spicer, said was demonstrably false.

In one gleeful exchange  on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd repeatedly pressed Kellyanne Conway on the issue.  Why Did President Trump and then his press secretary deliberately lie about the facts of the size of the crowd at the inauguration? Conway parried that the press seemed determined to put the new administration in a bad light. For one thing, she noted, we didn’t really know what the total number of people who watched the inauguration was. For another, the press, fixated on crowd size, essentially ignored a reporter’s tweet that Trump had had the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. removed from the Oval Office when that really was demonstrably false. It was all, said Conway, part of the general effort to diminish and delegitimate the new administration.  All that slid of Todd’s back, who came back to the facts about the size of the crowd. Spicer, said Conway, “gave alternative facts.”

Todd instantly jumped on the phrase, claiming that “alternative facts” are not facts but “falsehoods.”

It should go without saying that “alternative facts” by no means need be falsehoods. They might just be facts that not one has mentioned or noticed.  You glance out of a window and the wall on the other side of the street looks pinky-red. In reality, it is white, something the additional and alternative fact that a blazing red sunset was occurring explains.

But the Internet was not going to be detained by that brake on presumption. No siree. It was the work of a moment for some clever people with Twitter accounts to broadcast the meme that the Trump administration is just like Big Brother in 1984, deliberately distorting reality and undermining facts with their own politicized and malevolent narrative of “alternative facts.”

Overnight, the malignant fantasy went viral (and copies of 1984 flew off the virtual shelves at Amazon).  In another piece in The New York Times, the book critic Michiko Kakutani said that Conway’s invocation of “alternative facts” was “chillingly reminiscent . . . of the Ministry of Truth’s efforts in 1984 at ‘reality control.’”

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