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: First MoversTorture and Newspeak
By Anthony Ciolli, Luis Villa, and David Simunovich
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Did anyone get the sense that Ron Paul was the only candidate in the Republican Debate tonight that has read the book 1984? He took Brit Hume's covert phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" and said "it sounds like newspeak" and is just another word for torture. (See Andrew Sullivan's take on the debate if you missed it.) No one on the stage seemed to get the reference, nor anyone in the red state crowd, but it was heartening to hear the reference amidst an otherwise drowning Republican party.
Full post as published by First Movers on May 15, 2007 (boomark / email).
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