Happy B'day, George. Not teh stoopid George, the smart one. Orwell

George Orwell  
Date of Birth: 25 June 1903

If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin, where it belongs.

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946

Orwell's Number 1 Rule
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2004

Number 2
Never us a long word where a short one will do.

The United States and Russia are in the midst of transformationed relationship that will yield peace and progress." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov, 13, 2001

Number 3
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

"We stand for things." --George W. Bush, Davenport, Iowa, Aug. 5, 2004
note: OK, so he got one right for once

Number 4
Never use the passive where you can use the active.

"Rarely is the question asked, Is our children learning?
note: not to mention the verb thing

Number 5
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

"Arbolist  Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees." -George W. Bush, as quoted in USA Today, Aug. 21, 2001
note: dictionary.com
No results found for arbolist.

And finally Orwell's Most Important Rule Number 6
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." -George W. Bush, June 18, 2002