or salman rushdie -- you read a george orwell book in texas?d myself going against the grain and been -- i've had to confront, you know, preconceived notions for what a girl like me should be like my whole life, and i've just always been myself and done my own thing. i'm surprised you weren't put in an electric chair for reading george orwell, frankly, because he's a communist. well, i carry a gun, so... [ laughter ] anyway, you came down here to do your lap wearing those shoes. these are my driving shoes. did you actually do a lap of our track in those shoes? they wouldn't let me. what? they made me wear a helmet too, can you believe that? made you what? wear a helmet. with this hair! it's fluffed up nicely. don't worry about that. i have -- fluffers. 'cause the stig -- [ laughter ] the stig, okay, he was very -- and please don't take this the wrong way -- he's a very unusual person. he was very disappointed when you arrived, because he was expecting thora hird, not amber heard. i don't know, who's -- there is -- [ laughter ] he has a complete

>> guest: george orwell had a lot of composite characters but it was so popular leader -- popular in some much of an inspiration i had to include it. upton sinclair of course, it is a work of fiction but if you read the literature he says there's almost no elements in the books that were fictionalized almost all of it was documented and be documented proposal he would make the climate was not accept the reading of the narrative of the story line. they're still talking about it. i cannot tell you how many times someone has done the undercover expos a of the slaughterhouse there's something about the food chain that is important to us and people are visibly affected. he said he wanted to do something for their workers the he writes for the stomach and the examples the abuse and the lives of the people really did touch people in a different way. their revelations that came in the second half of the book. so that effective policy which was something. and everything they wanted to be. that was important to him. >> host: talk about jack london but there was something else that he wrote? >>

days ago, police arrested a 21-year-old student at cairo university who was carrying a copy of george orwell's novel 1984. it is a story about a totalitarian regime that monitors its citizens through every move. it's become popular in egypt. in elmay mono, people ran to the body moments april he was shot and killed. others ran to escape the blaze of tear gas. province is 122 kilometers south of cairo, one man was killed and a number of people were injured and arrested. the government said police came to this village to arrest suspects. when a member of the band muslim brotherhood began shooting at them and police shot and killed him. but people here have a different account. they say the government is retaliating against them for protesting in support of deposed president mohamed morsi. they say in june the government also cracked down on the village for proafting and joining what they called a terrorist group. the people who al jazeera spoke othe say dispiet the police crack down they won't be shut do. natasha guinane, al jazeera. >>> tensions between two of asia's largest economies. theirs w

days ago police arrested a 21-year-old student at cairo university, who was carrying a copy of george orwell's novel" 1984". according to one news agency the novel has become popular in egypt. the university protest came a day after this happened. in a village in the province, people ran to the body of a 26-year-old man moments after he was shot and killed. others ran to escape the bullets and the haze of tear gas. security forces raided this upper egypt village on sunday. the province is 122 kilometers south of cairo. one man was killed and a number of people were injured and arrested. the government says police came to this village to arrest suspects. when a member of the banned muslim brotherhood began shooting at them, and police shot and killed him. people here have a different account. they say the government is retaliating against them for protesting in support of mohamed morsi. they say in june the government cracked down on the village for protesting without permission and join what it called a terrorist group. despite the police crackdown they say they will not be silenced and they'l

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days ago police arrested a 21-year-old student at cairo university who was carrying a copy of george orwell's story 1984. it was a story about a totalitarian society. a day after this happened, in a village, moments after he was shot and killed. others ran to escape the bullets and the haze of tear gas. this province is 122 kilometers south of cairo. one man was killed and a number injured and arrested. police came to this village to arrest suspects when a band of muslim brotherhood began shooting ashooting and police sd killed him. support of president mohamed morsi. protesting without permission and allegedly joining what it calls a terrorist group. the people al jazeera spoke to say despite the police crack down they won't be silenced and they'll continue to protest. natasha guinane, al jazeera. >> monday is the deadline for registering, the government has tightened its squeeze with a number of offices being raided and workers being put on trial. organizations, they also say the law raises concerns that the government of president abdel fattah al-sisi is rolling back freedoms in the 2001 u

george orwell was right on. these days politicians are play fog a very narrow audience.ess you have a breakout political guy like barack obama who is african-american's status caught everybody's attention, election day is becoming passe. however, i do expect heavy interest in a 2016 presidential race because of hillary clinton. she is a polarizing figure and could become the first woman to win the presidency. everyone will know that's in play. but as far as the off year elections, forget about it. americans have checked out. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. are we being conned again by the obama administration? in china, president obama has announced that the u.s.a. and the chinese will work together work toke to cut carbon emission thought by many to provoke global warming. some say it's historic, others say it's a huge con. conservative blog red state.com. are are you a nonbeliever in global warming mr. erickson. >> i think the world has been warming and cooling for several billion years. i would put myself in the natural phenomenon camp. >> you feel

george orwell said "it's designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." let's bring in chuck, and matt, co-authorities of "dog whistles, walk backs." you start the back with the orwell quote. candidates love to say they are straight talkers, their words tell a different story. as i mentioned the american electorate is not buying it. why spend time working on how to say nothing. >> i think basically because the candidates get into office and feel like they have turf to protect. we have the 24/7 news cycle where they are afraid of making mistakes. ironically they are scripted a lot of the tiles that when they do make a mistake, it's amplified and they pay for it instead of cueing to the straight talk. >> that's an interesting point. >> you had a positive review in "the wall street journal," and it said even though the book is funny, it is driven by a certain amount of resentment. a quiet resentment. how big of an issue do you see this double speak being. so many people hate political - that political nonsense, no substance speech so much. why do they use it

similarly, the other iconic body of advice for writing happed out to every college freshman, george orwell's politics of the english language in which he says a mixture of vague yes and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern prose. i list the way that prose construction is dodged. the passive voice is used in preference to the active which contains not one but two examples of the passive voice. now, the passive voice, and, for that matter, any english construction could not have survived in the language for 1500 years unless it was doing something useful, and as these two -- self-contradictory advice -- remind us, we can't do without it. some why is that? well, to understand it, you have to think about the design of language, how language works. and in a nutshell, language can be thought of as converting a web of knowledge into a string of words. the wiser's -- writer's knowledge is a semantic network, a mind, wide web. a person's knowledge of the tragedy of -- a number of concepts and images and snatches of melody, all interconnected by various conceptual relationshi

a big reason may be political speak. 70 years ago george yor well orwell said it made murder sound respectable. co-authors of dog whistles walk backs and washington handshakes, decoding the jargon slang and bluster of american political speech. you start the book with that or orwell quote. the american electorate is not buying it. so why spend so much time working on how to say nothing? >> i think basically because the candidates get into office and they feel they have turf to protect. and we also have this 24-7 news cycle now where they're afraid of making mistakes. but ironically what happens is they become so scripted a lot of the times that it just when they do make a mistake it gets intlifd and they end up -- amplified and they end up responding to it in the first place. >> even though book is very funny it is driven by a certain amount of resentment, a quiet resentment. [ laughter ] >> so and how big of an issue? do you see this double-speaking? if so many people david hate political, that political nonsense-speech or at least no-substance speech so much why do they use it so much? >> we

speak. 70 years 70 years ago george yor well ago george yor well orwell said orwell said it made murder sound it made murder sound respectable. respectable. co-authors of dog co-authors of dog whistles walk whistles walk backs and washington backs and washington handshakes handshakes decoding the jargon slang and decoding the jargon slang and bluster of american political bluster of american political speech. speech. you you start the book start the book with that with that or or orwell quote. orwell quote. the american electorate is not the american electorate is not buying it. buying it. so why spend so much time so why spend so much time working on how to say nothing? working on how to say nothing? >> i think basically because the >> i think basically because the candidates get into office and candidates get into office and they feel they have turf to they feel they have turf to protect. protect. and we also have this and we also have this 24-7 news 24-7 news cycle now where they're afraid cycle now where they're afraid of making mistakes. of making mistakes. but ironically what happ