. >> george orwell and others, but particularly george orwell, wrote about the power of language in politics and the corruption of language for political purposes and vice versa. can you tell us a little bit about the power of language? i will give you some leads. the republicans have always been very good at freezing the debate and using their word. the pro-life forces went to ireland and said to the irish who were fighting abortion, "don't talk about the fetus, talk about the baby." that is the use of language for political effect. give us some examples of that. >> one of the things i collected over the years, just as sort of a prison for looking at this, is built -- as a sort of sasa pr ism for looking at this -- dwight d. eisenhower turned priority into a verb -- prioritize. the phrase, roosevelt came up with the fireside chat. my favorite is teddy roosevelt. he came up with some doozies. one of his was a lunatic fringe. >> teddy roosevelt came up with that? interesting. >> call up the channel and tell them that they are doing well. >> the other was muckrakers. that was one of his terms.

english language may be the best known of the essays and i think orwell would have been merciless at stripping away the rhetoric of george bush, cheney, donald rumsfeld and karl rove for that matter and so which orwell would have had the vote, the antitotalitarian who would have seen iraqi exactly as it was and known that to stand up against saddam was to stand up for the kurds and masses of iraqis who did not want to continue this way and he would have understood one learned as most iraqis were relieved to have that regime -- >> host: let's not forget. >> guest: exactly. that's been forgotten. on the other side orwell who hated political lobbying and propaganda. hard to say. >> host: it's also hard because you never wrote much on the middle east. he is skeptical about the foundation steve israel which is the argument going on in the closing years of his life. he was sympathetic to the arabs of palestine. >> guest: to think he believed democracy and the freedoms that milton stood for and could take root in non-western countries? is there evidence he did figure of a cltv -- >> guest: >> host: i'm quite sure of it. we only

questioner and producer of my friend and colleague george packer who has produced two volumes of george orwell and commented on and so today or well is our subjects so i wish we had more time. but i am guessing you have read tj book? >> i have not. >> what a shame. what i want to say from his book is that something i have a feeling you will agree with taylor writes in, i keep thinking this is mind marked you ever get the feeling? >> i do.

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