And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth....

From the Albany Times Union:

Lincoln Memorial Video May Be Revised

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press
Last updated: 9:26 p.m., Thursday, June 30, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service sought out footage of "conservative - right-wing demonstrations" to revise the video shown to visitors at the Lincoln Memorial after being pressured by conservatives who complained the display implied Abraham Lincoln supported abortion, homosexuality and liberal causes...

Yes and so continues the quest of the always offended right to remodel history like Winston Smith did in his cramped little office. Is the Lincoln Memorial supposed to stand for the beliefs of one man? Hey I love Abe, I've written papers about Abe but I have never confused the statue inside for the man himself. The memorial is about the idea of "America", its goals, and aspirations. It is not about asking would Abe Lincoln approve of this? (Hey new button "WWLD?")

The service has spent about $20,000 revamping the video and buying footage -- including some from The Associated Press -- after conservative political groups criticized the current display and organized a campaign of petitions and e-mails demanding changes....

Documents about the revision were released to two liberal advocacy groups, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the People For the American Way Foundation, after they sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Major portions of the 1,500 pages, provided to AP by the groups, were blacked out on grounds they included pre-decision information that did not have to be disclosed....

What is with these people and redacted documents? The memorial is a public place and the public is handed a bunch of blacked out pages. Who the bleeding F&$*# do these people thin they are? The right's inability to be forthcoming and forthright is one of the most disturbing aspects of their ideology.

"This is yet another example of the Bush administration's efforts to turn the federal government into a right-wing propaganda machine," PFAW president Ralph G. Neas said. "Now they're trying to rewrite history on the basis of ideology and abuse FOIA to conceal the evidence...."

Nuff said.