THE AP DECLARES THAT STALIN WAS AN "ECONOMIC MIRACLE WORKER"

You know, maybe he was that kind of happy-go-luckyTotalitarian Marxist that loves everybody, sorta like our Unicorn ridin' rainbow flingin' president! Gotta be fair now! From Pajamas Media:

Reuters adds its own deep thoughts, suitably even-handed for that icon of political correctness:

The many sides of the Stalin myth — bloody tyrant and war leader, pipe-smoking Kremlin puppet master and economic miracle worker — are still the subject of a heated debate in Russia…

I was left scratching at the remaining follicles on my head, wondering about that “economic miracle worker” bit. So far as I know, Stalin’s most (in)famous economic accomplishment was orchestrating a great famine that killed off million(s) in (the)Ukraine.

You might be tempted to write it off as a Russian aberration, but isn’t; it is part of a global resurgence of Orwellian newspeak, in which the powers that be rewrite history every day. After all, we live in a world where the American president invents all manner of nonsense about Muslim history (all that wonderful toleration in Spain during the Inquisition, the invention of printing, which was actually brought to the Middle East by Jews who published in Hebrew), and where the Iranian president inveighs against the “myth of the Holocaust” and still gets invited to dinner by the Council on Foreign Relations.

So you see, if Lenin could work economic miracles with his Marxism, what's to say that The Obamunist can't do that? I hope you've learned something here today!

(see below about the power of words and Newspeak)