Yes, the organization whose very name is an oxymoron has come smack up against the internet’s detailed memory.
In a statement to The Huffington Post, MoveOn’s Executive Director Eli Pariser reacted strongly to Clinton’s remarks: “Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim.
We have always been at war with Eurasia. Have these guys even read Orwell?
Reagan said “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” Maybe there’s a flip side. A Progressive is someone who has read Orwell but didn’t understand him. Just what a Progressive understands from his reading of anything might make for an interesting study.
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