Neo writes:

One of the things that continues to amaze me is the protean use to which the adjective "Orwellian" can be put. It always strikes me as ironic that Orwell himself--Eric Blair--probably wouldn't have been any too happy about his name being immortalized as a synonym for distorting and reversing the truth in clever and devious ways, since this is what he was warning us against. But no matter; the greater irony is that those who cry "Orwellian!" are all too often guilty of the charge themselves.