November 30, 2005

Sometimes, the political and the funny go together like cabbage and cheese!

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of the Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs—to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.

Yesterday we noted that a new MoveOn.org ad features a narrator declaring, "A hundred and fifty thousand American men and women are stuck in Iraq," as it shows a photo of British soldiers. Many of our readers pointed out that in addition to this misrepresentation, MoveOn has altered the scene in a still shot it shows on its Web site.

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See the difference? The man in the foreground, who has shorts in the video, appears to have donned cammies. In fact, if we're not mistaken, he is actually wearing the same pants--that is, the exact same pair--as the man behind him to the viewer's right. We're not even sure what the point of this deception could be. Perhaps MoveOn's dishonesty is simply pathological.

The details of History always serve the Truth, citizen!