It looks like our boy Rove took this one as an instruction manual

Since Reagan took office neocons have been making George Orwell's 1984 into a reality. Orwell explains it best in his book when he describes the sad, perverse values of a herdlike population: " . . . films, football, beer . . . filled up the horizons of their minds."

That might explain why the media apparently finds an American Idol contest more important than Amnesty International's condemnation of the United States for its Stalin-like practices at Guantanamo. Most media outlets chose to run Carrie on the front page.