This is my first post here at Feministing, so I'm sorry if this seems off topic. I thought I'd share this with everyone else who seems to be frustrated by the election coverage.

Eric Kleefeld of talkingpointsmemo.com notes this most recent development in the comedy of errors that is the GOP:

Wow -- a leading Republican appears to have just inadvertently admitted that the GOP's spin machine set up to counter Barack Obama during the convention is a propaganda machine spewing nothing but lies.

The GOPer in question is Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams, who accidentally made the admission when describing the GOP's war room in Denver set up to hammer Obama during convention week.

Wadhams described the GOP's outfit thusly to the Denver Post : "Just consider this the Ministry of Truth."

Um, as anybody who has ever read George Orwell knows, the Ministry of Truth exists to disseminate false propaganda about how great the ruling regime is, continuously rewriting both history and the present-day facts in order to maintain total control over the population.

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation," Orwell wrote. "These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink ."

It truly boggles the mind. Should I laugh or cry? It makes me wonder if there's a correlation to the controversy unleashed by the Bush administration's recent attempt to redefince contraception as abortion.

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