On the Keith Olbermann show on MSNBC, he recently covered the move by Karl Rove to try to cast the blame of the Iraq War to Congress.
Rove is going to the media in recent days, selling his new book, by saying that the White House was in fact against going to war with Iraq, and that Congress pushed the administration into conflict with the former dictator, Saddam Hussein.
This is revisionism at its pinnacle.
How dare Karl Rove try to pass the blame for this war off, as the administration has done so many times in the past, and trying to cover their own ass from blame.
Of course, Olbermann uses documents from this little website called whitehouse.gov to immediately blast any claim by Rove in recent interviews casting the blame away from him and his goon-friends.
At one point Keith and his guest Arianna Huffington, compare these latest moves to the Orwell book 1984, stating "We've all used George Orwell references and 1984 references so much that the estate of Eric Blair ought to be suing us for copyright violations," Olbermann said. "But this really is that book, isn't it? Can't you just see John Hurt [who played lead character Winston Smith in a film version of the book] talking into the dictaphone rewriting the old newspapers with Karl Rove over his shoulder to eliminate inconvenient facts? Is this not the practical application of he who controls the past controls the future."
Between the Patriot Act and other subsequent moves to limit our freedoms in exchange for "security" against terrorism, and the blatent refusal to follow the law by this administration, a world similar to 1984 doesn't seem that far off.
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