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The "Other" L-word Has Become A Dirty One ("LIBERAL")
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| 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.
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posted on
03/05/2005 9:41:04 AM PST
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srm913
To: srm913
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posted on
03/05/2005 9:44:26 AM PST
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srm913
To: srm913
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
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posted on
03/05/2005 9:46:25 AM PST
by
woofie
To: srm913
If "Liberal" is the other L word, what was the first one?
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posted on
03/05/2005 9:48:58 AM PST
by
wolfpat
(Dum vivimus, vivamus)
To: srm913
"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.......
To: srm913
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We need the full frontal to get a better perspective on what we're dealing with here. |
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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)
To: srm913
"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....
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posted on
03/05/2005 9:54:32 AM PST
by
fat city
(Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
To: srm913
In the U.S., "progressive" is slipping in to replace the L-word. "Progressive" scares me more than "liberal".
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posted on
03/05/2005 9:56:39 AM PST
by
Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
(THANK YOU LORD -- John Kerry is still just a senator.)
To: Fintan
Didn't she have her own sitcom once called "The Pruitts Of Southampton"? I know that face from somewhere.
To: srm913
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.
To: woofie
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.
To: wolfpat
If "Liberal" is the other L word, what was the first one? I think the terms liberal and loser have merged:
To: srm913
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.
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posted on
03/05/2005 10:01:42 AM PST
by
Theresawithanh
(2005! My resolution: FReep even MORE this year!!!)
To: wolfpat
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posted on
03/05/2005 10:02:27 AM PST
by
uglybiker
(I tried to contain myself but I escaped!)
To: srm913
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....
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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)
To: srm913
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.
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posted on
03/05/2005 10:02:40 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: wolfpat
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!)
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posted on
03/05/2005 10:03:18 AM PST
by
Theresawithanh
(2005! My resolution: FReep even MORE this year!!!)
To: srm913
"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.
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posted on
03/05/2005 10:05:28 AM PST
by
chudogg
(www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
To: wolfpat
If "Liberal" is the other L word, what was the first one?"
It's "lesbian", dim vivamus.
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posted on
03/05/2005 10:06:04 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
To: srm913
It must really SUCK being a liberal nowadays.
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posted on
03/05/2005 10:07:57 AM PST
by
WSGilcrest
(Tinky likes it!)
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