New World Dictionary

Howard Prescott: "Let me get this straight. Brantley is Whitfield?"
Brantley Foster: "That's right. Brantley is Whitfield. Whitfield is Brantley."
Vera Prescott: "And Christy is the bimbo. Well, now that we've all had Mouseketeer roll call, I'm just going to call my lawyer."
--The Secret of My Success

Mises observes that politicians, in classic Orwellian fashion, often seek to twist the meaning of words 180 degrees.

Over time, for example, the term liberal went from describing someone who was grounded in the principles of individual liberty to one grounded in big government and interventionism. Indeed, Schumpeter thought this particular turn around one of the more classic literary coups in political history.

Mises was particularly intrigued by bureaucratic efforts to convince people that more government intervention increases freedom.

More than half a century after Mises' comments, various strains of this argument persist. Check out the emperor's new clothes...