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Pushkin called the bill “political rubbish” and compared it to the book “1984,” George Orwell’s classic chilling tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of “newspeak.”

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Such language is right-wing newspeak for a second Civil War.

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Fox News' slogans and catch-phrases such as "Fair & Balanced", "Real News. Real Honest Opinion", and "We Report. You Decide" are Orwellian newspeak; Fox News is doing exactly the opposite.

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Their Orwellian newspeak version of "freedom, liberty and individual rights" just means that people are free as long as they do what Republicans want.

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“Food processor” sounds like newspeak concocted by a sinister culinary regime to reassure the international community.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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