When conservative rhetoric sounds like Newspeak - David Sirota - Salon.com: Orwell long ago warned of a political system that would insist with a straight face that "war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength." But my guess is that he never envisioned one of the leaders of a major political party claiming that curing cancer is actually cancer -- and my guess is that he certainly never envisioned one of the world's leading newspapers printing that allegation without at least questioning it's logic.