Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of Liberty

[Declan McCullagh]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:00:14AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
> The scary thing, or course, is that this is so close to current
> government rhetoric that intelligent, observent people have to
> look twice realize that (for the moment) it's satire. 
> 
> Life is starting to imitate art. Too bad the artist is Orwell.

In that particular story, art is not imitating life, but quoting from it.

The Onion story:
  http://www.theonion.com/onion3736/freedoms_curtailed.html
  "all Americans -- not just outspoken talk-show hosts like Bill Maher
  -- must watch what they say"

The WH spokesman's real quote:
  "There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch
   what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks
  like that; there never is."

-Declan