[kristinn]

ROTFLMAO. The Garofalos are giving liberals heartburn.

[EternalVigilance]

The Garofalos are giving liberals heartburn.

Crow does tend to stick in their craw, doesn't it...LOL...

[ladyinred]

Something other than logic is at work here. Republicans, right-wingers at that, control every branch of the national government -- the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and, increasingly, the lower federal courts. Why, then, this intense wounded rage?

Gee, why don't you tell us oh wise W Post person? Perhaps because of articles like this by left wingers?( right wingers control the lower federal courts? Hello?)

[Prodigal Son]

Bump

[okie01]

From Todd Gitlin, sixties counter-culture radical and Marxist dialectician.

And is this not the second piece on the same theme to appear recently?

If Liberalism Is Such A Dead Horse, Why Beat It?, by Michael Skube, yet another journalism professor...

The hive is gathering its talking points, refining its strategy. Looks like they're going to play at playing possum for a while...

[Nick Danger]

I get the sense that he thinks we should stop kicking them, because they're down.

Heh.

[hellinahandcart]

Todd says "WaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaExcerpted - click for full article ^

[green team 1999]

FreeRepublic.com, a right-wing super-site

wow,we are a super-site,VRWC members.

[ChadGore]

Freepers rock !

[Jim Robinson]

"FreeRepublic.com, a right-wing super-site..."

Hey, I like the sound of that!

[Joe Hadenuf]

FreeRepublic.com, a right-wing super-site based in Fresno, Calif., rails against "terrorist supporting leftists,"

Yeah, It's the same leftist morons that have taken California from 4 billion dollar surplus to a 34 billion dollar deficit!

The liberal leftist, anti-American freaks can't even balance a simple budget, and instead are doing their best to drive California into a financial ditch. Thank Gawd Gray Davis has murdered his own political future. California couldn't take anymore of his brand of leadership.

And to think they were going to run this clown for higher office!

[spodefly]

FreeRepublic.com, a right-wing super-site ...

I like it.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Liberal dogma: FR bad, DU good.

I would wager he went over to DU, took one look and run like hell to remove all traces his puter ventured into the shades of hades found there. For a liberal leftest to see DU, is to deny it exists.

[RockBassCreek]

Right Wing -- There's a term that means absolutely nothing.

It means nothing because it gets used for everyone more conservative than Jim Jeffords and Olympia Snowe. Boiled down, that argument says that only liberalism is a valid viewpoint to hold. On its face, that's absurd.

It also means nothing because of the old left/right argument that asks WHAT this supposed scale is measuring. On the left we have.....what? On the right we have....what? I can think of lots of things to name the scale, but that's the point. It's used for so much that it means nothing. (For example if you tell me "nazi" is on the right and "communist" is on the left, then I've got to point out that both groups are socialist. So on a scale of socialism we have what....the progression from state socialism to world socialism??? Who knows. I do know it doesn't include American conservatives, because they aren't socialist AT ALL. So how could they be on the scale?)

[kristinn]

D.C. Chapter ping !

[Cincinatus]

Rush Limbaugh calls liberal New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman "ferret-like" and groundlessly accuses him of peddling "idiotic kook conspiracy theories."

"groundlessly"???

[FreeTheHostages]

Todd Gitlin? He's writing about what the "right" thinks??!!!

AMAZING!! Only the Washington Post would think such a far-left guy as Todd Gitlin has a CLUE what the right thinks.

Here's a really radical idea: next time the Post wants to know what the right thinks, how about getting a conservative author to explain it? Not some ex-SDS leader from the 60's well-know for socialist leanings. This guy is so left he's spent a lot of timing attacking his university, Harvard University, as too right-wing.

[Matchett-PI]

I LOVE IT!!!!!

I saw you on Fox and Friends (videotaped it, too), and your appearance was as effective as ever!

They would pay no attention at all to us unless they viewed us as an EFFECTIVE THREAT to their Marxist agenda.

And if anyone thinks "Marxist" is too strong a word, they should go to http://www.marxist.com and see if they can find anything there that doesn't match what is advocated in 95% of the mainstream media. Hahahaha

EAGLES UP!!!

[SkyPilot]

Jonathon Alter wrote something similar in Newsweek. He opened the piece by quickly trying to level the moral playing field...kind of a lefty journalistism "Can't we all just get along?"

He said the "ultra-right wing" should admit it was wrong, and the left should to. Don't follow the logic? That's OK--no one can.

Oh, he said that "Liberalism" was the vanguard against tyranny and opression too. That was at least funny.

[tgslTakoma]

FreeRepublic.com, a right-wing super-site based in Fresno, Calif., rails against "terrorist supporting leftists," and gives "Garofalo Awards" (after antiwar comedian/actress Janeane) for excessive defeatism about the Iraq war. (Prize: "a stuffed ready-to-eat crow on a silver platter.")

32 hand-dyed "dead" birds, and glue - $45
10 "silver" and "gold" platters - $20
1 bunch of fresh parsley - $.89

National media coverage more than a week ago resulting in thousands of still-apoplectic leftists - Priceless!

[tgslTakoma]

Isn't it amazing to see what a small group of imaginative, good-humored and committed people can do?

And we didn't have to overturn and burn any motor vehicles, or strip nekkid and spell out "Garofalo," to get all the media attention, either. (Thank God!)