george orwel said in a time of disseat, telling truth is the revolutionary act and i want to exempt two members of this commission from the following statement. mr. gavel to gavel each meeting is a time of deceit, question why the department head in the city should be held accountable for the actions or in actions of those under his direction and control is without logical basis. and when a department head accepts a position, takes an oath and accepts a salary, they have a responsibility to the citizens of san francisco. do you believe that mr. ginsburg was not informed regarding this matter? do you believe that he did not purposefully avoid attending the hearing, as the sunshine task force and here? now, to say that he was unaware of this matter is something only a complete idiot would say. and again, we have a case where john st. croix will use a missing punctuation mark to thwart the will of san franciscans, i served in the military for 12 years and if you were the commanding officer of any command and someone in your command did something and the answer to the board of inquiry was t

and so think of the powerful modern writer is george orwell who creates a language of totalitarianism but he comes up with doublethink and even the word in 1984 at the phrase the title of this book sort of a metaphor for what would go wrong with the world in terms of totalitarianism. also in newspeak which is his language the suffix to say, that to use that as a way of introducing language that's his as well from that. the other dystopian. brave new world is a wonderful title and the concept and a phrase because it comes out of shakespeare and the inside joke is the first thing that the people in this totalitarian state in oxley's totalitarian state again in the words of shakespeare so there's a double hook there. james fenimore cooper, cooper was the first one to really write about the native american. he invents a whole language. some people say it's demeaning but it's his attempt to get at their culture. he creates words like war paint, firewater, happy hunting ground for the heaven or the life of the american indian. cooper has a marvelous sense of this and if you reread it. i rer

i quote an authority named george orwell at the end of that and i say -- who is rather tough on writers he says all writers are vain and selfish and exhibitionists. >> you also quote, he will think you a trivial fellow board him in the right way and your reputation is assured -- bore him in the right way. >> isn't that a great quote? it's such a great quote. i say in the first sentence of the preface that i will cop to being a trivial fellow. i've never had any illusions about that. i can say with a straight face that my goal has never been to bore the reader. >> this follows the quote. this irksome quote weighed on me as i brought this collection together. i can say with a straight face that might goal has never been to bore the reader. maybe i've been going about this all wrong. i'm 61 now but it's a bit late in the game to be worrying about that. what else don't you worry about? how does christopher buckley see life at 61? what's good about that and not so good about that? not life but how you see it. >> despite the aches and pains, you see i'm heavily medicated right now. [laughter]

and so i think of maybe the most powerful modern writer is george orwell who creates a language of totalitarianism, but, you know, he comes up with double think. and even the word 1984, the phrase, title of his book, is sort of a metaphor for what was gonna go wrong with the world in terms of totalitarianism. and he also, you know, in news speak that suffix, speak to say, you know, use that as a way of introducing a new$)/xí/grñ lang, that's his as well from that. and the other dystopian, of course, is -- [inaudible] brave new world. brave new world's a wonderful title and a concept and a phrase because it comes out of shakespeare, and the inside joke of brave new world is the first thing that the people in this totalitarian state in oxley's totalitarian states is they ban the works of shakespeare. so it's a double, it's a double hook there. james fenimore cooper, a lot of terms in here by cooper. cooper was the first one to really write about the american indian and the native american. and he invents a whole language more them which it's not -- some people said it's demeaning, but it's his attem

as we enter the post 1984, as in the title of george orwell's book world in which the government captureshing we say through our blackberries and i phones and uses them reco expectation of privacy goes down and the actual privacy protections that we have go down. and donald sterling have expected privacy in the bedroom of his own home? absolutely. should j z have expected privacy in an elevator? absolutely not. are those two expectations likely to change? we are in an era where the government wants to survey everybody. that gives everybody the opportunity to engage in their own surveillance in making the government. melissa: the show is called money. a lot of money involved, and when you go out and to attack other people's privacy it gets a little crazy. judge napolitano: j z can be very litigious. i don't think we heard the end of this. melissa: that so stream that is not popping with consumers. according to a new study by unruly, they are wasting money hiring big-name celebrities for commercials. here now marketing expert morris laura. we are looking at this big list of people, there ar

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at issue was one line in my rant about george orwell's animal farm., hmm, isn't that a political parable about pigs hogging up resources, telling animals they need food because they're the makers and scare up the prospect of a phony boog boogieman every time their greed is challenged? sounds familiar. well, conservatives lost their minds over that. orwell pigs weren't 1%ers. they were meant to be stalin and trotsky. the pig who predicts a revolution is lenin. they were communists, you liberal dog. i know orwell's novel was an allegory of soviet communism but to fixate on snowballist trotsky and napoleonist stalin is to mix the profundity of the story. it's about tyranny and the likelihood of those in n power to abuse that power. it's clear to tendency is not only found in the soviet communist experience. in fact, if you read "animal farm" today it seems to warn not of some now non-existent communist threat but of the power concentrated in the hands of the wealthy elites and corporations. the pigs cast themselves as mitt romney-style makers. they built

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well, i quote an authority named george orwell at the end of that essay who is rather stuff on writers. i think he says all writers are vein and selfish and exhibitionists. >> rose: you also quote -- who said make everyone laugh but bore him in a right way and your reputation is assured. >> isn't that a great quote. it's just such a great quote. i say in the first sentence the preface i'll cop to being a trivial fellow. i never had any notions about that. but i can say with a straight face that my goal has never been to bore the reader. >> rose: this follows that quote. this irk some quote, i can say with a face that my goal has never been to bore the reader. he has a point. maybe i've been going at this all wrong but i'm 61 now so it's a bit late in the game to be worrying about that. so at 61, what else don't you worry about. and how does you -- >> what else don't i worry about. >> rose: how does christopher buckley see life at 61? 's good about that and what's not so good about that? not life but how do you see it. >> i actually, despite the aches and pains, you see i'm heavily medi

well, george orwell wrote a book called "1984" where he talked about how people could twist the ordinary understanding of the english language in a way that is very dangerous. but i would suggest that under no definition of filibuster is the fact that the majority leader has imposed his gag rule, shut us out of the legislative process, denied us the opportunity to do what the constitution guarantees, and he calls that a filibuster. give me a break. so he comes to the floor this morning and he talks about, well, if you're watching c-span or if you happen to be visiting the capitol and be in the gallery, you're going to, you're going to see quorum calls and you're going to hear nothing but crickets on the senate floor, because there's not going to be anything happening there. but the reason why that's true in large part is because he has shut down the process. he has denied us a voice. he's denied us an opportunity to participate in the legislative process that the constitution talks about in the provisions that i just read. so i guess i'm probably not going to persuade majority leader rei

difficult that day bloomberg might be the day when we finally concluded tony blair went berserk george orwell in his novel and it was a novel not a blueprint not a manual nine hundred eighty four. of course member of set the novel at a time when you were is was always war with east asia and it's mr blair's manichean view of the world does the west will always be war with the east and the. grotesque patter d. of democracy that he was talking about is shown by the fact that he's backing the military in egypt overthrew the elected government and calling for all of us to get behind saudi arabia the least free and least democratic country on the op and his elastic definition of extremism is demonstrated by the fact that he wants us all to get behind. in syria whilst being up prominent war with the al qaida mindset everywhere else or almost everywhere else in the world this was the age of insanity from tony blair but it dominated the british news agenda and even reached jew in the united states for forty forty eight hours as if the article had descended on mongst us with tablets of stone to distrib

in fact, it is so much so i think it would make george orwell blush that he didn't have the imagination for the kind of suppression, oppression and degradation that occurs in the north korean regime today. 200,000 north koreans are in gulags around the country. freedom of religion, freedom of political practice all repressed and the terrible, terrible suffering, preventing the reunification of korean families, even to visit, the complete lack of humanitarian regard by this brutal regime is something we, americans, cannot ignore and we hear in congress have an obligation to address. so i commend the house foreign affairs committee today for adopting unanimously this important piece of legislation and eagerly look forward to passing it when it comes to the floor. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, in light of my recent appointment to chair of the house select committee on the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attacks in bengha