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The "Other" L-word Has Become A Dirty One ("LIBERAL")
Toronto Star ^ | March 5, 2005 | Antonia Zerbisias

Posted on 03/05/2005 9:41:03 AM PST by srm913

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"Being termed a liberal is terrifying; it's terrifying."

Very interesting case study. I can't think of a single conservative who is TERRIFIED of being labeled a conservative. Liberals are afraid of who they really are, because it's a scary thing.

ALMOST as scary as Antonia.


1 posted on 03/05/2005 9:41:04 AM PST by srm913
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2 posted on 03/05/2005 9:44:26 AM PST by srm913
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So how do liberals win the word game?

"The answer is populism," Smith proposes. "You have to get people thinking about the right things."

Shows just how brain dead this guy is

3 posted on 03/05/2005 9:46:25 AM PST by woofie
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If "Liberal" is the other L word, what was the first one?
4 posted on 03/05/2005 9:48:58 AM PST by wolfpat (Dum vivimus, vivamus)
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"You have to get people thinking about the right things."




Oh, we are!!

Patriotism
Integrity
Morality
Faith
Family
Sovereignty
Individualism
Security
Prosperity
Opportunity


Feel free to add.......


5 posted on 03/05/2005 9:52:01 AM PST by reformedliberal
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We need the full frontal to get a better perspective on what we're dealing with here.

 

6 posted on 03/05/2005 9:52:12 AM PST by Fintan (A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx)
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"That is classic propaganda, says psychologist Neil Wollman, a senior fellow with the Peace Studies Institute at Indiana's Manchester College."

You may be a liberal if....

7 posted on 03/05/2005 9:54:32 AM PST by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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In the U.S., "progressive" is slipping in to replace the L-word.

"Progressive" scares me more than "liberal".

8 posted on 03/05/2005 9:56:39 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (THANK YOU LORD -- John Kerry is still just a senator.)
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Didn't she have her own sitcom once called "The Pruitts Of Southampton"? I know that face from somewhere.


9 posted on 03/05/2005 9:56:58 AM PST by whereasandsoforth
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Words are not the problem.

The meaning behind the word is the problem.

This is why they can switch from socialist, to Liberal, to Moderate, to centrist to progressive and still face the same issues of distrust and dislike. They are who they are no matter what word they confiscate to label themselves as.

Liberal isn't a bad word in it's traditionalist sense. It was when they used it as a cover for advanced socialism and in some case communism that it developed the loaded poison it holds.

When REAL Liberals take back the traditional meaning behind the word, it'll once again be acceptable to the American public.


10 posted on 03/05/2005 9:58:35 AM PST by Soul Seeker
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So how do liberals win the word game? "The answer is populism," Smith proposes.

LOL!!! I can guarantee you that in the last 20 years, 99% of kids graduating from high school weren't even taught what the word, "populism" means. They're gonna' have to go back to the drawing board, because "populism" ain't gonna' cut it.

11 posted on 03/05/2005 10:01:22 AM PST by ExtremeUnction
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If "Liberal" is the other L word, what was the first one?

I think the terms liberal and loser have merged:


12 posted on 03/05/2005 10:01:37 AM PST by DeFault User
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She's the one who is terrifying!

From my perspective, knowing several libs and talking to them, the denunciations are coming mostly from them towards conservatives. We're so dumb, how do we even get dressed in the morning and hold a job type of stuff, and how, pray tell us, could you have voted for that arrogant cowboy, Bush.


13 posted on 03/05/2005 10:01:42 AM PST by Theresawithanh (2005! My resolution: FReep even MORE this year!!!)
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Loser.


14 posted on 03/05/2005 10:02:27 AM PST by uglybiker (I tried to contain myself but I escaped!)
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Here's a sample from right-wing banshee Ann Coulter's latest bestseller,

right-wing banshee Ann Coulter ??????

Looks like our girl Ann struck a few nerves....

15 posted on 03/05/2005 10:02:30 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for," - Howard Dean 01/29/2005)
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Right now, liberals are snapping up a slim volume by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. Titled Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, it attempts to counter "the right wing's stranglehold on political dialogue."

With leftist control of the media, the schools, and the universities, she thinks WE have a stranglehold on political dialogue?

I wish. She has no connection with reality.

16 posted on 03/05/2005 10:02:40 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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The other "L" word is "lebanese", you know, when girls sleep with girls.

(sorry, couldn't resist, that's one of my favorite "Dear Abby" letters!)


17 posted on 03/05/2005 10:03:18 AM PST by Theresawithanh (2005! My resolution: FReep even MORE this year!!!)
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"Eighty per cent of the talking heads on television are from the conservative think tanks. Eighty percent."

I suppose thats true when you consider the Brookings Institute to be a conservative think tank.

18 posted on 03/05/2005 10:05:28 AM PST by chudogg (www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
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If "Liberal" is the other L word, what was the first one?"
It's "lesbian", dim vivamus.


19 posted on 03/05/2005 10:06:04 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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It must really SUCK being a liberal nowadays.


20 posted on 03/05/2005 10:07:57 AM PST by WSGilcrest (Tinky likes it!)
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