so if you say, gosh, is it a little early to be going orwell or a week out of inauguration? tell you one of the orwell comparisons is actually coming from a trump ally, facebook founder mark zuckerberg. but he was describing in a new interview the federal guidelines against medical and vaccine misinformation. something out of like, you know, 1984, one of these books where it's just like it really is a slippery slope. that is zuckerberg's idea of an orwellian attack. he was talking about mostly biden era covid policy and his new interview with very trump friendly podcaster joe rogan. although when it comes to government overreach, while zuckerberg is playing the orwell card on the outgoing administration, it was donald trump who embarrassed zuckerberg by announcing quite recently that he, the president elect, thinks the facebook founder bowed to him, bowed to trump because of his past threats. >> do you think he's directly responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past with these proposals? >> yeah, probably. >> probably. yeah, that's serious stuff. it would

i was working on this book and orwell obviously is dead, you know what i mean? and i was reading this and i, you know, and this is like the amazing thing about literature and, you know, you know, talks about how if he had lived in another time where things were different, he would just, you know, just be pretty writer of prose. but given the events and the time lives in, you know, he has to elevate political writing into an art. and as a black person, a traditional black writer, like, i really felt that. i really, really understood that. and that's like, you, my kids, they they start with, oh, well, actually, they all start with that orwell essay. if they saw politics in the english language is beautiful in its own way. but that's something that we have, you know what i mean? like they have that spirit. and it was one of the beautiful things about, you know coming to hollywood to teach, because do you write about you say, i don't really care so much about hearing both sides are opposing points of view so much as i care about understanding literary tools deployed

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that's why george orwell said who controls the past, controls the future, and america's past is and greatly diminished without robert e lee, because lee was the greatest example of, noble character and virtue in american history. he was the perfect balance of the softer character traits kindness, humility and and the more manly virtues of courage and strength and honor. lee was the man that every southern male aspired be. he was the son that every southern mother hoped to raise. he was really the embodiment of virtue. so why should care about that? we should care because character matters and america needs character. now more than ever. anyone who studied going all the way back to the ancient greeks and plato knows that a democratic republic cannot survive without virtue, our founding fathers knew this well. in fact, benjamin franklin said only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. we see what happens when unscrupulous people people without virtue take power and they ignore the constitution or they ignore laws they don't like, or they censor speech they don't like, or they abuse the sys

guest: no, as somebody who wrote good stuff on that was george orwell, on the way in which the english language is used in such a way not to promote more clarity but to do just the opposite, to muddy things up. we talked about that in the last hour. we have talked about how terms get thrown out and they have a lot of baggage attached to them. and sometimes a word is tossed out and they try to slip in a lot of baggage that does not belong. i agree with you. i don't want to respond about the particular political points you have made, ok? host: donna is in texas on our line for independence. good morning, donna. caller: yes, i'm here to talk about liberalism. we talk about advocating the freedom of the individual and want to talk about how as an individual, like myself, america needs to see about people with disabilities. people with mental health issues. how can we really exercise liberalism, freedoms of the people, if we are not reaching out to all of the people? black people? all races? all mental health? all disabilities? and i also think about how trump and elon musk want to cut out

we'll support in george orwell's novel 1984. how many of you read 1984? we used to have to read it in high school. i was a kid. so many, many of you have. but it is 1984 and his novel, 1984. it's a fictitious totalitarian government, creates a controlled called newspeak with limited grammar vocabulary. the point of is to suppress the ability of people to think independently or abstractly, making it difficult to, resist the ideological orthodoxy, the socialist collective. the words mean nothing in newspeak, and that makes them ideal for society's elites to dictate what they mean. esg fits perfectly into the newspeak lexicon. no need to think about the issues. it's all part of this wonderful saving esg. so having identified stakeholders or really society as the group whose interest america ceos were to serve and employing esg to expand the definition of what those interests were. i think it essentially re-interpreted the traditional duty that business as an asset managers owe their investors to the point where it imposes no restrictions, the ability of the

you know, the echoes of george orwell when you're having someone who's being told, despite being assaulted over and over and over and over again, having a stun gun driven into his neck that under the eyes of the justice department, he is no longer a victim. >> and congressman, president trump is standing by his pardons. even for those who were convicted of assaulting police officers. here's more of his interview. just yesterday on fox. >> they were treated like the worst criminals in history. and you know what they were there for? they were protesting the vote because they knew the election was rigged and they were protesting the vote, and that you should be allowed to protest a vote. you should be allowed to, you know, the day when the day comes, you shouldn't be able to invade the capitol. >> your reaction when you hear the president of the united states downplay violence against police officers. >> it's a. >> dangerous mix of vanity. >> and ignorance. >> wrapped in some real values. >> that are. >> antithetical to the american. >> justice system. but we. >> know why he did it, and it is

joejoel spoke about 1984, four years later, but in 1984, ignorance is strength —— george orwell.ven years, cost 200 million, why is the leader of the opposition calling for a public inquiry when she was in cabinet were named may 20 recommendations, none of which has been acted upon? a bizarre world. i think what musk is proving is having lots of money does not make you more intelligent about world affairs. a strange situation. we will pick up on the calls for an inquiry with wes streeting and chris philp later. samuel, you have seen conservatives seen sometimes to follow reform who have been following elon musk, what do you think of this ecosystem feeding off each other? is it a concern? ., feeding off each other? is it a concern?— feeding off each other? is it a concern? ., ~ . , ., concern? elon musk, richest man in the world, — concern? elon musk, richest man in the world. one _ concern? elon musk, richest man in the world, one of _ concern? elon musk, richest man in the world, one of the _ concern? elon musk, richest man in the world, one of the largest - the world, one of th

i read a book and i wrote george orwell. and i said, i've had this against you ever since the debate with reagan. and i've read your book about baseball. i got lot out of it. and now i feel like we're even. and i hope we can be reconciled. and he wrote back and said he appreciated all of the letter except the fact that i didn't pay full price for so we will reconcile. but i think quite often it's it's not a difficult thing if we would guess that almost everybody has someone whom they might hold a grudge and to make a telephone call and you know i'd like to work this out i'll write a postcard and say, i'm thinking about you and and hoping we can be friends. just a simple thing. i can really change people's lives after living faith. the president stayed alone on with times books as his publisher, and he did a book called sources of strength meditations on scripture for a living faith. and that was by the virtues of aging in 1998. his next three books would be published simon and schuster. first was called an hour before daylig

robert heinlein and arthur kessler and and frantz kafka and alexander salt and eidson and george orwell and the consistent theme and all of those works was the presumption that censorship of speech was always wrong, that it was always the first step down on this slippery slope toward tyranny and terrorism. there is no time when we look back at history and we say that the people who were censoring speech were the good guys. they're always they're always the bad guys. the framers didn't write the first amendment to protect convenient or desirable speech. they wrote it to protect the kind of speech. and nobody wants to hear. they. wrote it as to protect incendiary speech. they wrote it to protect insult. they wrote it to protect missing information and dissent from age and and mal information and even lies. all of those are protected by the first amendment. there were no exceptions. the constitution does have exemptions for wars or resurrections or financial crises or pandemics. the framers wrote the constitution in our times during the american civil war. the confederates states were send

. >> with ryan's invocation of orwell here and the. >> the really. >> deep.s trump has been obsessive about to wipe it out. that's why i really thought that both howl and chuck can hit it dead on, because they when you push hard on a trump kind of initiative, there's always a lie. there's always a lie. and here the lie that there are several, but especially that these are heroes and patriots. they they saw them firsthand, as did their colleagues for four years. and they that's they found, you know, completely antithetical to what was before them. but generally the now triumph of the idea and tarrio. >> and. >> others came came out absolutely triumphant and ready to, you know, come back to, to kick some in the teeth. some of trump's opponents. there's just nothing more sort of galling and revolting for the whole constitutional principle that was so deeply violated of the peaceful transfer of power. >> i've got a couple of things. >> i want to. show all. >> of you. let me start. >> with danielle hodges, one of the officers. his comments last night. >> it was ki