BS.. "Here's a radical idea: The person with the most votes should be the Democratic nominee"

[The Magistrate]

11. How Cillizza Makes A Living At This Is A Constant Amazement, Ma'am

Orwell comments on how success at punditry (he was referring to comment on events in WWII) owed nothing to accurate analysis and successful prognostication, but simply telling some audience or other what it wanted to hear at any given moment.

Cillizza's comments reflect the great overestimate of Sanders strength that most media seems to have held at the start of this year's campaign. This seems to have owed largely to the media simply tallying up comments on social media, rather than investigating and assessing the actual shape of political life.


"When someone says it's raining, and someone says it isn't, a journalist's job is not to report that opinions differ, but to step outside and see if he gets wet."






"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."