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The Impossibility of Satire in the Age of Bush

As it turned out, Orwell was only off by about 10 years. 1994, the year of the Republican Revolution in Congress, ushered in an age of newspeak beyond which the “political correctness” of the 1980s could never gather the testicular fortitude to go. It began with Newt Gingrich’s “Contract on America” (I use the parodic [...]