"Orwell Would Eat These Free-Speech Warriors on Toast & Still Have Room for Bangers & Mash"

[kpete]

The uproar in the right-wing monkeyhouse over Biden's "Disinformation Governance Board" rings a little hollow.
By Charles P. Pierce
Apr 29, 2022
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Spare a thought for Nina Jankowicz, who has stepped up to lead this effort at the Department of Homeland Security. Volunteering to be a piñata takes a certain amount of gumption. And yes, for the record, I am concerned what this operation would look like under, say, President DeSantis, and there had to be a more deft way to roll it out than having DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas just drop it into his testimony before a House committee. (The Senate will have its turn at him next week.) And there had to be a better name for it than the Disinformation Governance Board, a monicker that sounds as though it were made of steel, concrete, and barbed-wire. Why are Democrats so bad at naming stuff? The Republicans are terrific at naming stuff, even though, most of the time, those names are perfect examples of…disinformation. We should all talk about this seriously at a later date.

But I am not going to listen to it at the moment from the party of insurrection, the party of book-banning and library-scouring, the party of dangerous myth-making bullshit about “grooming” and (eek!) “critical race theory,” the party full of people who still bend the knee to the Prince of 30,000 Lies down in Florida. Hell, this is a party that lies to itself. Isn’t that right, Never-To-Be-Speaker Kevin McCarthy? Regain your sanity, folks, before you start throwing around George Orwell’s name in defense of your absolute right to launder and launch all the fantastical tales spun by Macedonian teenagers. Orwell would eat you all on toast and still have room for bangers and mash.

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39862061/biden-disinformation-governance-board-republican-freak-out/

[harumph]

1. I want to know what brainiac named the Board.

Probably a 24 yo idiot intern. OMG. Are there no adults to assist the children?
It does sound Orwellian. "Disinformation Governance Board" ...a tone deaf and inflammatory name.
First of all, the American public for the most part, doesn't know the difference between "misinformation"
and "disinformation." "Anti-Disinformation Board" would have better.

[orwell]

2. How about...

....Bullshit Detection Board.

It has a nice ring to it...