[ April 19, 2024 ]
1984 is here. CNN’s Brook Baldwin and Don Lemon, starring as soldiers for the “Ministry of Truth,” attacked the Daily Beast’s Matt Lewis for using the words “angry mob” to describe protestors who participate in activities such as: chasing Ted Cruz and other Republicans out of restaurants, disrupting the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and final vote with their screams of protest, and pounding on the door of the Supreme Court Building.
Upon hearing Lewis describe these groups as “angry mobs,” Baldwin immediately tried to cut him off.
Baldwin: “Ohhhh, you’re not going to use the “mob” word here. Matt,” she scolds, as he tries to speak. “Matt” (he tries again) “Matt…A mob… Stop. Stop.” She will not allow him to speak.
Story continues below advertisementThen, the vile, shrill and intensely unlikable Maria Cardona chimes in. “How many times has that happened Matt?”
Lewis tries to speak again. “It’s people who are upset with the way the country is going and the policies that these people…” He is abruptly cut off and instantly shouted down by the ill-mannered, intolerant Lemon.
Lemon: Will you let me finish, Matt, please, before you jump in? Okay? I’m making a point. Okay? I’m making a point. I can’t make it if you keep interrupting me…I’m the moderator and the host of this show. Will you let me finish? Matt, please! Let me finish.
Lewis: Bring it on. Mind if I have a drink? (He picks up his water.)
Cardona chimes in with more of her rubbish.
Lemon: You can do whatever you want. You can leave the show if you want. Shut up and let me do it.
(Note: I have been unable to import the clip from youtube. To view the discussion, please go to: https://www.foxnews.com/shows/hannity and watch video entitled “Newt Gingrich: Left becoming more willing to destroy system.”)
The point of bringing up this uncivil exchange over usage of the word “mob” is that words are important. Especially in politics.
George Orwell wrote that the language of politics “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Political language, he said, was expressed in vague or meaningless words because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it. Welcome to doublespeak: language that pretends to communicate by hiding its intentions behind euphemisms and convoluted phrases. Doublespeak makes the bad seem good and the negative appear positive and limits and corrupts thought.
Alan Moore, in his novel “V is for Vendetta,” wrote that “while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?”
This is all to say that words matter. Because this is so, one of the first steps a totalitarian state will take to achieve and then to maintain control over their citizens, is to alter the meaning of words and terms of commonly understood usage to their favored narratives.
The Democrats tried to initiate this step in the early days of the Obama administration. Instead of speaking of the “Global War on Terror, we were to use the term “overseas contingency actions.” He refused to use the term “radical Islamic terrorists,” and referred to them as “foreign terrorist organizations,” as if to distinguish from Christian, Hindu or Jewish terrorists. And his Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, favored calling acts of terrorism “man-caused disasters.” This “corruption of language” was one of the opening acts of Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
Since that time, progressives have become far more brazen in their words and actions to achieve power. They defend the dangerous actions of Antifa claiming that the Constitution gives them the right to protest. But it doesn’t give them the right to harass citizens who disagree with them politically or to destroy property. The Democratic party has lurched so far to the left since Hillary Clinton’s shocking 2016 defeat, that Democrats, starting with Obama, Clinton, Erik Holder, and Maxine Waters, are using increasingly dangerous language in their rhetoric. We didn’t quite grasp then the desperate behavior that Trump’s victory would unleash.
We’re hearing calls to eliminate due process, to abolish the Electoral College, to rewrite the Constitution, to open our borders and even to pack the Supreme Court. It was the Democrats’ behavior throughout now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, however, that brought them to their all-time low.
Newt Gingrich, appeared on Hannity Wednesday night to discuss the escalating aggression in language and in actions from the left.
Gingrich: What you’re seeing is the emergence of a brownshirt party, to use the term for the people who in Weimar Germany went out and literally dominated the streets by brute force. They can’t win. They didn’t win in the senate, they didn’t win the presidency. In my judgement, they’re not going to win on Election Day. They’re becoming more hysterical, more antidemocratic, more willing to destroy the system.
President Lincoln once warned that there are people who oppose us so much, it’s their way or they destroy it. We’re faced with that kind of opposition.
So, let’s have an open public debate. If you think that people like Erik Holder, Hillary Clinton should be allowed to impose their will by brute violence, vote Democrat. If you think that’s profoundly wrong, then you ought to vote Republican.
Hannity then mentions a new Rasmussen poll (and I admit, Rasmussen polls tend to favor Republicans).
Hannity: Republicans now lead Democrats by a pretty healthy margin in terms of enthusiasm. And what was, just maybe two months ago, a huge gap in terms of generic ballot, it’s now dead even according to Rasmussen. There’s been a dramatic shift.
Could it be that, in their desperation, the Democrats have gone too far in their words and in their judgements about where exactly the line is drawn between their rights under the Constitution and the reality of their behavior? That perhaps the majority of Americans found their words and actions during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings to be unreasonable, if not abominable?
And that maybe the term “angry mob” is really just an angry mob and not open to interpretation?
A little parody from the Babylon Bee entitled, “‘Let The Hate Flow Through You!’ Cackles Cloaked Hillary Clinton At Campaign Rally”
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17 Comments
5 years ago
I read the classic, “1984” when I was in early high school. Being a fan of dystopian fiction, it was one of my early favorites…. I loved “Brave New World,” as well.
I never thought I would see the day that our great Country is being pushed closer and closer to some of the admonitions chronicled….
5 years ago
Reply to
catmartin
Some states have banned it but others still use it as required reading.
Brave New World is another good one.
5 years ago
Reply to
catmartin
I’m not sure too many would UNDERSTAND what he is saying and drawing parallels to what is happening today. Kids are VERY uninformed.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I fear you are right. So many young people are interested in popular culture and their devices. With the ongoing censorship going on by the “masters of the universe” (nod to Breitbart), there is definitely a shortage of diversity of opinion where they go to get their news.
5 years ago
Reply to
catmartin
Kids are so DUMB!
They have been brainwashed. You can point obvious truths out to them and they see NO CONNECTION to what is happening because what you point out has been lied about. They have been taught LIES and reject truth. Lies build upon lies.
5 years ago
Mob like conduct speaks volumes, for that is how I see the now Democratic party and its followers, and the conduct of those out there who refuse to appropriately debate the many issues that now to be dealt with, but would rather overwhelm us with abominable conduct often bordering on and becoming violent. This article is right on. Gingrich’s comments are absolutely correct, a vote for the Democrats is a vote for mob rule. We cannot let that happen.
5 years ago
When the state has too much power, freedom dies.
5 years ago
Don Lemon is a vile, hateful, arrogant, disgusting piece of garbage who thinks he is superior to EVERY non-liberal on the planet. And doesn’t mind showing his contempt at every opportunity he can.
5 years ago
I think many people are beginning to see what the left really is. Even Rush used the word DERANGED the other day to describe their behavior.
I was quite surprised.
5 years ago
A mob does not think, only reacts. This description captures the dynamic of a group acting via non-rational means, a group otherwise known as a mob. It signals its intention in slogans that telescope issues. Vagueness ensues. It fuels itself with emotionalism.
Overall, a mindlessness prevails at the heart of a mob. This intellectual vapidness permits a mob to target others as justified because fingered as symbols of whatever issue(s) the mob seems to object to. A mob satisfies itself when it destroys something, whether symbolic or actual, or both.
A mob may have an armchair leader, such as a politician (Senator Harris) or an attorney (Avenatti) or a public figure (HRC). They have in common to foment and to foster mob action without getting their hands and feet dirty in the street.
A mob may arise from a protest out of frustration and then become aimless — another characteristic of a mob. In turn, anger may infuse the mob to make it prone to violence. We see this line of mob development today.
The MSM may squelch talk using the word “mob” while the MSM profits from reporting the deeds of a mob. This duplicity of the MSM discredits it. As bad, the MSM will channel the voice of the mob, also for profit under the MSM business model. The MSM worsens mob behavior by reporting it in a context of bias and propaganda seeming to approve or justify this behavior.
5 years ago
5 years ago
These globalist fuckers aren’t even so much looking at “1984” as an instruction manual as much as looking at it and saying “Pfft, bush league stuff, we’ll show`em real control!”
5 years ago
Yeah, it was written to deaf ears, … well, you know what I mean. Let’s agree that there is nothing in the book, that I remember, which tells me how to solve anything or avoid such a result. In this respect, it has entertainment value, but not much else.
5 years ago
What the problem is is that they have been in Journalism for so long they do not know proper usage. They are part of a very ignorant MOB! Secondary problem: They are also liars, who don’t like to see their worldview completely refuted by simple English…
5 years ago
“1984” was written by a globalist insider who, after being appalled by what he was hearing, became a whistle blower. He knew the exact plan, the one trying so hard to play out right now.
