Ruth Marcus meets Orwell

Ruth Marcus thinks she has the lowdown on Sarah Palin and Orwell. Writing in one of her incessantly critical columns about Palin, Marcus implies it is highly unllikely that Palin knows anything about Orwell and probably never read any of his work. Orwell wrote about many things including manipulation of languague to distort truth. In other words, fantasy over fact. Sound familar? I thought about fantasy over fact as I read the column where Marcus berates Palin for defending herself against another slam by another left leaning guy with the last name of Gross. The slam was called something like the Sound and Fury of Sarah Palin when it really should have been titled the Sound and Fury of Michael Gross. Palin called such hacks "impotent" or something similar. Marcus was offended, not for Palin of course who is defamed on a daily basis but for the Gross guy. She thought Palin's comments were too strong, too tsk tsk. Somewhere in that column Marcus got around to Orwell and defended him too from the likes of Palin ever reading his writings. How Marus gained her knowledge of Palin and Orwell she doesn't say. Did she have Joe McGinnis peek over the fence into Palin's book collection? If she did, she's not telling. We just have to take her word for it, as she is more elite than the rest of us, that people like Palin (and probably like us) don't read Orwell. We don't even know who he is. That's why Marcus and the like have to tell us what's best for us and why they try to destroy with words people they don't agree with, like Palin.