NewSpeak=BushSpeak

Orwell's invented language for the world of 1984 has crept into our conversational English in many ways. We hardly notice how often we are plagiarizing Orwell. One item from a couple of years ago rang a bell for me, and I didn't know why until now: "The internet is a series of tubes," the famously stupid phrase spoken by Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, is remarkably like a definition from this NewSpeak dictionary:

"memory hole - A system of pipes, similar to pneumatic tubes, which were used to destroy documents. A document stuffed in the memory hole would be conveniently whisked away to the furnaces below - quickly & easily wiped from history."

Which is also pretty near to our shared visualization of the Richard Cheney Vice Presidential Archive.