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With freedom of speech under heavy assault, Hillary says message of 1984 is “Trust Big Brother”

Sep 14, 2017 9:35 am By Robert Spencer

“Nineteen Eighty-Four is famous for the term ‘doublespeak’ — a powerful form of propaganda that deliberately obscures, disguises, or reverses the meaning of words. In the book, the government destroys the very purpose of language by insisting that ‘War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.'”

Nowadays the Orwellian line is “Islam is a religion of peace.” And then there’s “hate speech is not free speech.”

“Orwell’s point in 1984 was that the very kind of technocratic progressivism which Hillary Clinton praises as the solution to all social ills is itself the deep and abiding threat.”

Yes, and it’s coming down fast, and unless large numbers of people wake up quickly to what is happening, it will very soon be upon us.

“Has Hillary Lost Her Grip on Reality? ‘Rely on Big Brother’ Was NOT the Message of Orwell’s 1984,” by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media, September 13, 2017:

In her new book What Happened, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a shot at literary interpretation — and twisted George Orwell’s book 1984 to mean the exact opposite of what it really means.

“Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism,” Clinton wrote. “This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered.”

So far, so good. Then Clinton draws the exact wrong message from Orwell’s classic. “The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves,” she bizarrely added.

But Clinton wasn’t done. “For Trump, as with so much he does, it’s about simple dominance,” she concluded.

Writer and lecturer James Heartfield noted that Clinton’s interpretation is a “bizarre misreading.”

One Twitter user cleverly pointed out how Clinton’s own interpretation of 1984 uses “doublespeak” to subvert the very message of the classic work.

This literary analysis of Clinton’s paragraph hit the nail on the head. The former secretary of State started out by correctly explaining Orwell’s point — authoritarianism does indeed try to redefine reality.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is famous for the term “doublespeak” — a powerful form of propaganda that deliberately obscures, disguises, or reverses the meaning of words. In the book, the government destroys the very purpose of language by insisting that “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.”

Both the Left and the Right have pushed narratives that dismiss and demonize the other side, but Clinton’s use of propaganda here was rather obvious. Again, she wrote, “The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves.”

In 1984, every single one of those groups besides “ourselves” is in on the propaganda game. The political leaders are controlling the narrative, erasing history and even words from existence. The press is an arm of the state, pushing the big government’s propaganda (sound familiar?). A powerful group of “experts” use their position to oppress the people, and Orwell reveals this system directly, as the main character works in the administration.

Orwell’s point in 1984 was that the very kind of technocratic progressivism which Hillary Clinton praises as the solution to all social ills is itself the deep and abiding threat. Since the late 1890s onward, progressivism has placed tremendous faith in scientific “experts” to reshape society, and the governing administrative state is a direct result of this movement.

Clinton, as leader of the party of big government, is infamous for pushing the all-consuming liberal narrative of political correctness, which brooks no opposition or question. She unequivocally embraced “intersectionality” during the campaign, championing “oppressed” groups which actually exert political power and dismissing those who would dare to disagree as “deplorables.”…

This is why Hillary Clinton’s misreading of Orwell is so dangerous. So many liberals see themselves as being on the side of the angels, and they cannot come to grips with the fact that millions of Americans disagree with them, for rational reasons that have nothing to do with racism or “hate.”…

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  1. Papa Whiskey says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 9:50 am

    Would that this garrulous gorgon could just be ignored instead of being able to use a compliant media establishment to flog her tendentious book.

  2. vyx says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 10:52 am

    Personally, I want her to stay in the spotlight. I want her to keep speaking out, so people can see what bullet America collectively dodged.

    Her statement– along with many of her other statements– leads me to believe that at best, she has a personality disorder or two. At worst, she’s seriously mentally ill.

  3. Westman says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 11:15 am

    Yes, let’s all humbly follow Big Sister.

    After all, she has been leading the way since college, demanding that “restrictive” (general course requirements, specifically, science) courses, not directly related to one’s major be dropped while a sophomore at Wellesley. That was followed by back-talking the main speaker while she was giving the Wellesley student graduation speech in 1969. Both her desire for politics and a developing blindness to her aura of strident-feminist-inclined unlikableness were evident by that time.

    She blames many factors for her loss but the actual cause lies in her own soul – the arrogance of assumed superiority. It is respected in the ranks of the elite yet is seen as the most objectionable characteristic by those who suffered quietly at the hands of similar people during their adolescent development – the “deplorables.”

    The message of 1984 is clear. The loss of our ability to speak and act freely will degrade life to the level of animals, locked in a meaningless circular existence of invisible walls that depends on elite government.

    Just as Winston erased people from history, we now have Hillary’s supporters, The Ungratefuls, calling for historical statues to be removed so that only The Ungratefuls vision of history remains.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 11:17 am

    First,the actual reasons that Hillary Clinton lost the election is not any kind of Russian hacking or interference nor the FBI director, angry White men, or misogyny , Facebook, WikiLeaks, Twitter, or Putin. The reasons that Donald Trump won the election was that he had much better polices and politics than Hillary did. As for example, Trump is for very strong border security and Hillary was not. In addition, some of the reasons Hillary Clinton lost the election was ,as try as her might to cover it up, was that Hillary was not only extremely incompetent but also she could not hide her the fact that is she is a two-faced, narcissistic vicious ,manipulative, corrupt pathological liar.

    Second, Hillary Clinton, that wicked old harpie should go back into the woods. For she is a “has been” and furthermore, Hillary Clinton is an outright liar. For example, Hillary is lying when she claims that has worked for women rights. This is a lie and a hoax. Hillary in spite of being a woman has none anything of any actual worth or value for women and girls .As explained in the two following examples reveal.
    First, Hillary Clinton proclaims and presents herself to be the defender of “Women Rights.” There is an old saying which is “talk is cheap.” For how does Hillary really measure up to her claim? Is her claim valid and true or invalid and false? First , Hilary Clinton that very friendly towards Islamic countries ,as Saudi Arabia which is a nation that is not only oppressive upon girls and women but also brutal and cruel towards them . Hillary with her “Clinton foundation” receives large “donations” [bribes] from such Islamic regimes, which harshly oppress females. For those “donations” Hillary use her political know how and manipulates things to work in favor of those regimes of misogyny. By the way, the Bible teaches that only wicked person accepts a bribe ,Proverbs 17:23.
    Second, in America, Hillary had used her sly and deceitful l ways to obtain freedom of a heinous man who she knew was guilty who had raped a twelve year of girl. There is even on tape recording saying the that lie detector showed him to be “innocent” Hillary then said laughing that test had forever destroyed her “faith in polygraph tests” Hillary had the stooges do everything they could do to tamper with evidence and tried her best to blame the child for the everything that happened with that hideous crime . From “That girl led him on” to “she was lying about that man. “ Hillary even is so fake as to pretend that hers and “Christian.” What real Christian would try to shift the guilt from a man in his forties who brutally raped twelve year old girl and then even attempt to blame the girls for the crime ? The answer in no true Christian would As the Bible teaches “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – the Lord detest them both.” Proverbs 17:15. [N.I.V.]
    So that claim by Hillary of being a defender of girls and women is invalid and false and is thus one more of her many insidious and deceitful lies.

  5. steve k says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 11:21 am

    The left sees orwell as instruction manuals, not the warnings he intended.

    • shoehorn says

      Sep 14, 2017 at 6:03 pm

      Quite so. The SPLC is based on the Ministry of Love.

  6. mortimer says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 11:44 am

    Hillary Clinton: “It isn’t totalitarian manipulation and disinformation when WE DO IT.”

  7. mortimer says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 11:51 am

    Who killed Seth Rich?

    • Joe says

      Sep 15, 2017 at 7:14 am

      When HRC was in college, she flew with Bill to Arkansas. The lady that picked them up at the airport, said HRC had 3 guys in suits tagging along. Who were the 3 guys in suits?

  8. Guest says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    No one likes a sore loser Hilary!

  9. gerard says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    She is beyond stupid. Her thinking is so perversely twisted I sometimes wonder if she is actually demonically possessed.

  10. John A. Marre says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 12:55 pm

    Hillary was willing to say and do anything at all, to gain power. If she ever gains power she will show the world what totalitarianism really means. She is controlling and without principle. She will use her position to expand her power and increase her personal wealth. She will happily turn this country over to Muslims, if it gets her into power.

  11. gerard says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 12:58 pm

    I know my above comment must seem rather medieval but it would explain a lot. What’s the body count these days? Why are the Clintons untouchable? Who’s protecting her?

  12. Crystal says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 1:14 pm

    One of the messages in 1984, as found out by the character Winston, is that no one can be trusted, especially the government and press. But it’s worse than that, you can’t even trust the opposition and rebel leaders. Such ignorance of this book by a college educated woman is inexcusable.

  13. Darryl Kerney says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 1:22 pm

    It would be funny if it wasn’t so appalling !
    She says we need to follow our leaders, but not the elected President,
    No, she would have Americans follow the leaders who really do seek to be Big Brother or Sister, like herself.

  14. Wellington says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    Just like Hillary to get things ass backwards.

    You know, she’s rather like Karl Marx in that once you find out what she thinks about a subject, conclude exactly the opposite and you have about a 99% chance of being correct.

  15. DogOnPorch says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    She only need convince the choir.

  16. Guest says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 2:56 pm

    Read Atlas Shrugged and you will know what happens when you trust big brother

  17. Dave Flang says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 4:57 pm

    1984 George Orwell – Full Movie
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZBnUt6rZ0

    Today we are surrounded by them.
    I Was A Communist For The FBI (1951) FULL

  18. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 5:00 pm

    How did she make it through law school?

    • TassieR says

      Sep 15, 2017 at 6:50 am

      Her research thesis was, but naturally, not on Orwell. It was on Saul Alynski.

  19. Lydia says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 7:27 pm

    Ah yes, but remember… she is part of the doublespeak matrix of Orwellian contradiction… she is ONE OF THEM!!!

    Dun-dun-duuuuun!

    The suspense and intrigue of the thriller continue… but we are in it too…

  20. Robert_k says

    Sep 14, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    Only Hillary could make an argument in favor of Orwellian doublespeak from 1984.

  21. Sarah says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 4:17 am

    I feel like I’ve fallen through the looking glass/down the rabbit hole/into a wormhole etc etc.

    Hilary of all people – using the message of 1984 to support her own actions and intentions as the right thing and the right way?

    If my poor Dad were still alive today, I’d show him this and he’d just about choke in outrage.

  22. TL says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 7:00 am

    Hillary should send PJ Media a bouquet of flowers with a note to thank them for being reliable parrots of doublespeak such as the example which follows:

    Clinton, as leader of the party of big government, is infamous for pushing the all-consuming liberal narrative of political correctness.

  23. AaronC says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 9:50 am

    Clinton would have disarmed us and let in unlimited migrants, but she did not misinterpret 1984. She said it portrayed a government, which generally we should be able to trust, doing what she called horrible things in the book. She does accuse Trump of doing those things, which should be debated separately.

  24. martin says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 10:00 am

    Yet another confirmation from her of how she sees evil as the right path and how blind she is to the way others see that she proves what she really is.

  25. Richard Tierney says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    It’s DOUBLETHINK and NEWSPEAK, not DOUBLESPEAK.

    Richard Tierney

  26. Dum Spiro says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 11:36 pm

    An oldie but a goodie:


    You realize I mean the video and not her…
    — Spero

  27. Peter says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 1:12 am

    Clinton and Obama are both Alinskyites, so doublespeak comes rather naturally to them. Fortunately, reality has multiple ways of biting them and other deceivers in the ass.

  28. Kepha says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 10:18 am

    The Kids of ’68, which is what the Clintons were, were and are a perverse and crooked generation. Worse yet, they are governing us. This is why a former colleague of mine in the school where I teach had a sign on her bulletin board reading, “Terror is when you wake up and realize that your high school class is running things.”

    Shrillary Shrooooooooo lost because her lies, incompetence, viciousness, and lack of human warmth were open for even the most obtuse to see. Yet we are still living in an era in which people call evil good and good evil, and for which Shrillary Shroooooooo is the human face.

  29. Karen says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:49 pm

    I have to say, that for absolute deceit, Hillary is second to none. It’s breathtaking! I almost admire her unbelievable guile. The fortitude it takes to put a statement like that in print with a straight face must be massive. She knows that hundreds of thousands of people are mocking her, right now, and ridiculing her, noting that she uses the very technique she warns against. But it’s calculated; there are millions of undecerning who will give her a pass, because ‘she wants to help us’.

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