The "Other" L-word Has Become A Dirty One ("LIBERAL")

Toronto Star ^ | March 5, 2005 | Antonia Zerbisias

[Wormwood]

From what I hear, it SUCKED being a conservative for the 50 years.

I, for one, welcome our new liberal underclass.

[tacticalogic]

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.

Actually, that should make it easier for them. If no one really knows what it means they can make it mean whatever they want. Perception is reality, doncha know.

[river rat]

"If "Liberal" is the other L word, what was the first one?"

Leftist, Lunatic, Liar, Loonie, ------ it's all the same...

Semper Fi

[Timm]

Articles like these are hilarious. Poor liberals. Their ideas are so compelling, so popular... if only they didn't always get beaten up by lying conservatives who "push" the "idea" of a liberal slant in the media. I mean, gosh, with such a compelling agenda as the liberal one, if they only found a way to counter those devastating attacks on media outlets they'd run the table.

The author's Canadian, so she gets some slack for cluelessness-- poor girl, she can't help it.

What cracks me up is this poor-me routine liberals pull. I've never heard such nasty invective from a political party than I did from Democrats this last time around-- Bush started a war to benefit his friends from Texas, to profit Haliburton, to scare people into voting for him. That's what was said by elected Democrats, never mind Moore. Now, though, liberals pretend they did nothing but offer high-minded "complexities" and were met with insults from an angry mob of children.

[srm913]

Leninist...

[B.O. Plenty]

Liberals have been trying for years to re-name abortion to "choice"..but it hasn't worked very well. Moving from "liberal" to "progressive" will not work either. The glaring fact remains that if time is allowed to pass, the object of their "choice" becomes a human being. The light of truth is too glaring. The truth that liberalism=socalism is likewise too glaring.

A cat is a cat, a horse is a horse, a rat is a rat, and a liberal is a liberal....even if he is called........"progressive".

[ShowMeMom]

Feel free to add.......

Here's my favorite:

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[WSGilcrest]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

[Wormwood]

Moving from "liberal" to "progressive" will not work either.

Back in my college days (class of 92), I was a flaming liberal---but I never called myself one.

Instead, I was proudly 'progressive'---a name reinforced in the liberal echo chamber of th times (mother jones, the progressive, the utne reader, pacifica radio, ad nauseum).

The name has been around since the '30's, and it has never caught on in the mainstream

[HolgerDansk]

Thanks to the right, its media mouthpieces, and a lack of cohesion on the left, knowledge of liberalism's benefits has slipped down the memory hole.

Just as any of the benefits of conservativism have been swept under the rug by the liberal-dominated press. The great struggle of the past three generations, the victory over Communism by US Conservatives, was swept under the rug by the media (not to mention the back-stabbing collaboration by liberals).

Cry me a river, liberal.

[carlr]

So how do liberals win the word game?

Leadership and character are not word games.Thankfully libs are unwilling to admit that they lack both.
I will continue to cheer them on as they march down the road to the darkness of obscurity.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Doctor -- my eyes! My eyes! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Wormwood]

[Fintan]

Didn't she have her own sitcom once called "The Pruitts Of Southampton"? I know that face from somewhere.

 

No, I think she's the star of  "I'm So Full of Myself".

[fish hawk]

A blond Maureen Dowd with chubby cheeks?

[srm913]

Pretty close. She's just as delusional.

[doc30]

That is classic propaganda, says psychologist Neil Wollman, a senior fellow with the Peace Studies Institute at Indiana's Manchester College.

Never mind that liberals fought for social security, civil rights,...

This woman is filled with her own propaganda. The liberal democrat party rejected civil rights. It was the evil conservative Republicans that passed the civil rights act and abolished slavery. Conservatives understand basic economic principles the show private accounts for SS give a better return than the current pyramid scheme. But when do facts matter to liberals?

[hinckley buzzard]

"Right now, liberals are snapping up a slim volume by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist at the University of California at Berkeley."

It doesn't matter and it won't help. The only thing that's a "stranglehold" is America's grasp of reality.

Turning to this loser is proof positive that the 'rats have missed the point completely. They're just looking for one more way to scam the people by twisting words. Jerkwater perfessers won't get it done for them.

[ExtremeUnction]

Perception is reality, doncha know.

Yep. Your right. But most of them are still going to have a hard time spelling it (four syllables!).

[Hardastarboard]

during the U.S. presidential campaign, we saw supporters of Vermont governor Howard Dean dismissed as a "tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show."

I would be willing to bet that Mr. Dean doesn't have any body piercings. All the rest of it is true, of course. And, for the record, I don't fear being called a liberal. I despise it. Those are practically fighting words.