Orwell:
"... He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed.
McCain:
Obama says we need a new kind of politics and denounces the national leadership. That's just treasonous! He wants to end the Iraq war immediately. He has a sinister desire to restore the Constitution and civil liberties. He wants to give rights to terrorists. He'd rather lose a war just to get elected.
Orwell:
Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self−satisfied sheep−like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically.
McCain:
Obama would be dangerous, and he'd let all those "Radical Islamic Jihadists" destroy us. They're everywhere -- may even be your neighbor -- and they are an existential threat the likes of which has never been seen in all of history.
Orwell:
In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen.
McCain:
Convention attendees jumping up and down, shouting at the tops of their voices, "USA! USA! USA!" and "DRILL BABY DRILL!"
Orwell:
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge−hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
McCain:
Real Americans know that there is real evil in the world, and it must be destroyed. Obama's a pansy, and thinks we can talk to these people, when everybody knows that bombing works better. We have to show 'em who's boss. A little torture never hurt anyone. We are mad! We feel an abstract, undirected rage that shifts from the war, abortion, contraception, sex education, global warming, polar bears, taxes, regulation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, black people, brown people, yellow people, poor people, Muslims, Russians, Iranians, Syrians, the French, San Franciscans, pornography, unwed mothers (all but one), liberals, left-wing media, and that ridiculously quaint, obsolete goddamn piece of paper some group of wig-wearing idiots from England wrote over two centuries ago.
