Molly Ivins riffs off Joshua Marshall’s “(award) for the Iraq-hawk who can come up with the most ingenious, Orwellian, up-is-down rewriting of the history of the year-long lead-up to the Iraq war.” Nominees include William Safire, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, and good ol’ Ari Fleischer. At one point in her column, she refers to one of the twisted concoctions that passes for the truth these days as ‘what the BBC — not normally noted for overstatement — called, “One of the most stunning pieces of news management ever conceived.” ‘ It is a sad commentary on the prominence of this rogue’s gallery of Orwell Award contenders that you would be hard pressed to even figure out to which of the current distortions the out-of-context BBC quote might refer.