Anyways, this phrase is widely used today in America, perhaps precisely due to the archaic and ancient-sounding effect it brings. Here are a few recent media examples:
1. I've finally figured out the Republicans' philosophy: If President Barack Obama is in favor of something, it has to be wrong, even if they once believed in it.
Save the economy from collapse by propping up the banks, which former President George W. Bush did to a fare thee well? That's now socialism. Talk to school children about turning off video games and doing their homework? That's “creepy” and Orwellian, indoctrinating the young as if they are guinea pigs.
- Fat Panels Would Be Scarier Than Death Panels: Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg.com, September 17, 2009.
2. Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, 88, who was ignored by President Bush and relegated to the rear of the White House briefing room during his administration, lashed out at the Obama administration for what she called “a pattern of controlling the press.” During a briefing on Wednesday with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Thomas said that even “Nixon didn't try to do that. ... What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” She objected to Obama's decision to invite a writer from the Huffington Post to ask him a question sent in from a citizen in Iran. She interrupted when Gibbs promised CBS News correspondent Chip Reid that he would “interrupt” the tradition of allowing the Associated Press to ask the first question and let Reid ask him on Thursday about the questions raised by the audience at Wednesday's town hall meeting in Annandale, VA. Thomas charged that Gibbs was openly attempting to manage the news. “I'm not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to a fare-thee-well – for the town halls, for the press conferences,” she said. “It's blatant. ... They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”
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