"Overcoming Liberalism: A 12-Step Program"

Chron Watch ^ | Monday, January 06, 2003 | Jeremy Robb

[M. Peach]

A great place to send recovering liberals - Great stuff!

[M. Peach]

A valuable read for those wishing to convert liberals.

[yeetch!]

Magnificent

[Sofa King]

Step 2: Pledge to support your beliefs with facts Realize that truth is more important than moral superiority and is the only way to come over to reality. You must research beyond propaganda from the Sierra Club, Hillary Clinton, and CNN (the Communist News Network) to understand things as they really exist in the world. You can no longer argue based on “feelings” or emotion. You will actually need to back up your arguments with real information. This is a difficult step, because it means you can’t be lazy any more.

Therein lies the rub. Alot of liberals will never get past this step because it's too easy to use cyclical reasoning to justify their 'facts': My favorite liberal 'intellectual' says that Rush is a liar. Therefore, I cannot trust anything that Rush says. Because of this, I will not believe Rush when he points out falsehoods that my favorite liberal is guilty of. (repeat this with anyone who challenges liberalism, since my favorite liberal calls everyone who disagrees with him a liar) Since there is nobody left to challenge my favorite liberal's credibility, he must be truthful

The only way to get past this step is to do your own truth checking (ie, keep track of what people say and look for internal inconsistencies, check for hypocrisy, take not of things such as the Jason Blair incident) Of course, this can be alot of work for someone who is used to taking the liberal media seriously.

[Arthur McGowan]

Jimmy Carter is NOT a "nice man."

[M. Peach]

We need to keep this bumped.

[M. Peach]

Have you asked your friend to point out specifically where Rush lied? Ask him to provide proof.

[evad]

Emotion always trumps logic for them, regardless of the blatantly obvious..

It also trumps "facts". Liberalism is the ultimate truth distorter.

[M. Peach]

I think he may be giving a minor concession to ambivalent liberals.

[M. Peach]

One of the best descriptions I ever head about the difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals let their emotions and feelings rule their thinking and conservatives their brains and logic.

[Sofa King]

I'm speaking more of how liberals act in general than I am of a specific person.

[rontorr]

Ask him to provide proof. ..........


the only proof libs need is the fact that they said it, it must be true

[Sofa King]

Upon re-reading my post, I have seen where I have given you a false impression-

When I said "my favorite liberal 'intellectual'", I was speaking from the viewpoint of a liberal (ie, that's what the liberal would be saying). The liberal 'intellectual' would be someone on CNN.

[Bob]

Jimmy Carter is NOT a "nice man."

No, but he does pretty well at pretending to be one. That's good enough for a lot of people.

He was perhaps the most incompetent president in recent history.

[The Raven]

wonderful

[M. Peach]

He was as bad as Clinton when he started denegrating Bush's decisions. Ford or Nixon never said a word about his many screw-ups.

[Ditter]

This is great! I just sent it to my lefty cousin in California. I told him to pay special attention to #6 & #8. he he

[evad]

One of the best descriptions I ever head about the difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals let their emotions and feelings rule their thinking and conservatives their brains and logic.

I think that sums it up pretty well for the "true believer" liberal.

However the Hollywood liberal, the Politician scumbag liberal, the sum sucking lawyer liberal, the NAG liberal, the Hitlary and Bill liberals..I could go on forever but that bunch is a whole different bag of nasty nasty worms.

[tiamat]

Arthur McGowan wrote:

Jimmy Carter is NOT a "nice man."

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THAANK YOU!

That really frosted me, too.

Tia

[Helms]

Pretty brilliant.