All written history is subjective to a point. As humans, we
can’t help but bring our biases and prejudices to accounts of the past, even
when it comes to what we choose to leave out. A problem arises, however, when
you try to revise well-established historical evidence for purely ideological
reasons. This was the work of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in 1984, but there is
a parallel organization operating right now with the same agenda as Orwell’s
fictional government office, and it’s name is FOX News.
Examples of FOX News’ historical revisionism are too
numerous to list, but the latest foray into turning the past on its head is a
recent interview with former president George Bush. As if being broadcast from
a television studio in the bowels of the Ministry of Truth, sycophant Brian
Kilmeade praised Bush for his handling of the Iraq war and focused on a Bush comment
that there would be problems if the military left Iraq too soon. Treating him
as if he was a wise political sage instead of the man who opened the Pandora’s
Box of death and destruction in the Middle East, Kilmeade and FOX News ignored
reality altogether, never broaching the subject of WMDs or the missing billions
of dollars or the devastated country he handed over to Obama in 2008.
It’s just one more example of why regular viewers of FOX
News are the least well-informed consumers of television news.
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