Hillary and '1984'
by Ryan Sager
Thu, 29 Mar 2007 at 10:26 AM
updated Thu, 29 Mar 2007 at 10:31 AM
Is there more than a little bit of truth to that Hillary Clinton "1984" ad that's gotten so much press in the last few weeks?
Over at TCS Daily, my old boss at the Cato Institute (not that he's old, of course, just that he hasn't been my boss for many years), David Boaz, points to some text from Mrs. Clinton's "It Takes a Village" that is actually pretty 1984-like.
You think the telescreens from "1984" were creepy? Well, get a load of this...
"Videos with scenes of commonsense baby care — how to burp an infant, what to do when soap gets in his eyes, how to make a baby with an earache comfortable — could be running continuously in doctors' offices, clinics, hospitals, motor vehicle offices, or any other place where people gather and have to wait," Mrs. Clinton writes.
Mr. Boaz further speculates that the childcare videos could alternative with "videos on the Food Pyramid, the evils of smoking and drugs, the need for recycling, the techniques of safe sex, the joys of physical fitness, and all the other things the responsible adult citizens of a complex modern society need to know."
Mrs. Clinton's nanny-ish tendencies have always been one of her weakest attributes as a public figure. I think we'll find this to be a very common theme in attacks on her — and rightly so.
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