THE INSIDER: Orwell missed out on Trumpspeak
George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, written in 1949, hits the number one spot on the Amazon bestseller list
Thanks to President Donald Trump’s communications adviser, Kellyanne Conway, confirming that we live in a world of "alternative facts", George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, written in 1949, hit the number one spot on the Amazon bestseller list this week. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Penguin is printing 75,000 more copies of the book about a dystopian future that brought the world many scary terms and neologisms, such as "newspeak", "thought crimes" and "doublespeak". Now that alternative facts are a genuine unreality, and because Trump is such a "sore winner", according to CNN’s Kate Bolduan, the Insider expects to see such Trumpspeak proliferate and is anticipating news briefings in which hypothetical answers will be offered, support of servile rights confirmed, rhetorical commands given, and in which "seize and desist" orders will abound. Where is Big Brother when you need him? PAC uncovers the bigger picture Now that Julius Malema has done a 540° turn on, well, e...
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