Marty Kaplan does the Huffington Post and the English language proud with his post today called "Soros or Murdoch".Kaplan writes:
Get ready for a new Fox-wide onslaught on George Soros. The man Bill O'Reilly calls "the single most dangerous individual in the United States," and to whose name O'Reilly attaches the Homeric epithet "radical-left activist billionaire" as regularly as Spy magazine used "thick-fingered vulgarian" as a prefix for Donald Trump's name, is backing a new effort to unmask political propaganda, and Rupert Murdoch's minions can be counted on to denounce it in an orgy of hilariously self-incriminating projection.He who smelt it, Fox News, dealt it.
The 60th anniversary of George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" will be the occasion in a couple of weeks for a daylong conference at the New York Public Library subtitled "Orwell Comes to America," as well as the publication of a book called "What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics." Anyone who hasn't drunk the Murdoch/Cheney Kool-Aid will instantly recognize the legitimacy of the topic: American discourse has been hijacked by right-wing demagogues who win by smear, reign by fear, demonize dissent, treasonize reason, and accuse any public utterance which reveals their lies or intent as "liberal media bias."
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By the way something, just because a guy has a gozillionty billion dollars and is a staunch liberal doesn't mean he's paying the light bills at the old ice station. In fact I'm not sure how the lights stay on here. I don't get a bill or anything, so it's kinda baffling. Yo George, if you're out there, sir, break me off a grant, man. This global warming is out of control. My penguins are sweating bullets! I need central air! Upgrades! Help us out.



























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