Republican Thought Police 0
Clarence Page exposes the duplicity. A nugget:
Thought police? If you want to have a future in today’s Republican circles, thou shalt not scoff in public at the power of talk-show star Rush Limbaugh or the next day thou shalt find thyself apologetically groveling at his mighty throne.
Newspeak? Don’t even think of referring to tea party supporters as “teabaggers,” even when they’ve got tea bags dangling from their hats.
But, amusing as such examples might be, the rise of right-wing PC takes on an aroma of real danger in a current case of what I call Wisconsin Doublethink: The use of state versions of the Freedom of Information Act to suppress information that the right doesn’t like.
