At a speech in at a St. Louis conference on media reform, Bill Moyers attacked the Bush administration, the mass media, and the far right in general for having “appropriated the news speak vernacular of George Orwell‘s 1984.” As Michael Sorkin details in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report, Moyers noted the tactic in such examples as ” giving us a program, no child will be left behind, while cutting funds for educating disadvantaged children. They give us legislation calling for clear skies and healthy forests while “turning over public lands to the energy industry.” Seeming to equate Orwell’s Big Brother with the Republican Party, Moyers said, “The more compelling our journalism, the angrier became the radical right of the Republican Party. That’s because the one thing they loath more than liberals is the truth. And the quickest way to be damned by them as liberal is to tell the truth.”