Mukasey Hangs A Portrait Of Orwell
by Keith Olbermann
Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 09:58:20 PM PST
Attorney General Michael Mukasey says he has hung two portraits in his new office. And one of them is of George Orwell.
This would be the original Reuters story.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2536540620080125 The operative part would seem to be the AG's insistence that he esteems Eric Blair, AKA Orwell, for the clarity, not the subject, of his writing.
I'm still not sure I haven't gotten a very specific "Your Worst Fear Suddenly Materializes In Real Life As A Matter-Of-Fact Wire Story" moment going on here. Or maybe it's some sort of "You've Been A Good Boy: Here Is Six Weeks Worth Of Jokes, No Lifting Involved" thing.
This was the Countdown version of it, and I hope you'll forgive me quoting myself. Eating my own words, most wholesome diet, Churchill... you know the gag.
Bushed! Number One: 1984-Gate.
I swear, I ain't making this up.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey reveals today, he has two portraits hanging in his new office.
One, of former Supreme Court Justice and Nuremburg Prosecutor Robert Jackson.
The other, of Eric Arthur Blair. Pen name, George Orwell, the author of Nineteen-Eighty-Four.
Wouldn't an Orwell/Rove portrait combo have been better?
No, says Mr. Mukasey, the Attorney General.
The Attorney General of the United States.
The Attorney General of the United States who keeps a freakin' picture of George freakin' Orwell on his office wall.
He swears it's not because he admires the history-revising, corner-cutting, terror-manipulating government which Orwell created.
He says the portrait hangs there because he likes the clarity of Orwell's writing.
Mr. Mukasey he adds he adores Pamela Anderson's penmanship.
more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/26/03148/0572/47/443383
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