Note that Mr. Alleg does not actually say where Ms. Rosett’s post uses language that Orwell would criticize; he simply dismisses it as “crap” and invokes some unspecified “irony” on the presumption that anyone who disagrees with him is “oblivious.”

But of course, this is the standard liberal trope, now fully deployed in the Global Warming Campaign: invoke an unsubstantiated presumption (“scientific consensus”) and vilify anyone who disagrees (“climate deniers”). Orwellian irony, indeed.

As for holding UN operatives to the standards of accountability and probity that apply to most ordinary folk, that would seem to be out of bounds. Perhaps these great champions of egalitarian justice and moral relativism are simply “more equal” than the rest of us.