Liberals That You Like (Name The Liberals That You LIKE!!!)

Self | April 15, 2002 | PJ-Comix

[NonZeroSum]

A "classical liberal" is a nineteenth-century liberal. The closest thing to it today is a libertarian.

[clintonh8r]

Good list. I think you covered all of 'em. I would probably add David Susskind and Joseph Heller (since they apparently don't have to be living to qualify). I noticed there wasn't a woman among them. Lefty women tend to be awfully shrill and not very likable.

But your comments about Sharpton tell me you don't like him but that he's a useful idiot. Therefore, he shaould be off the list.

[ILuvRonnieRaygun]

Lisa Simpson

[PJ-Comix]

I still have a soft spot for Jerry Brown.

Good one although I gave the Finger to Brown once when driving around L.A. late one night. He was in the back of the car just ahead of me and kept looking back towards me with those nutcase eyes of his. I found this amusing so I gave him the Finger just to see what would happen. Jerry then turned and said something to the driver and his car speeded up out of sight.

[Drew68]

Carl Hiaasen. He's a columnust for the Miami Herald as well as fairly popular novelist who's penned such satire/mysteries as Skintight, Striptease, Native Tongue and Sick Puppy. All his books take place in Dade County, FL and usually deal with corrupt politicians, journalists, tourists and land developers. He is an environmentalist and a lefty, but he is funny as hell and his satire is dead on. I've read all his books and usually cried tears of laughter as I turned each page.

[mac_truck]

Jerry Brown -for starting military acadamy in Oakland. (an appropriate response to eubonics)

Juan Williams - anyone who NPR tries to get rid of can't be all bad!

[MarineDad]

Tom Brokejaw (in a hesitant, uncomfortable, dissembling sorta way)...his tribute to the "Greatest Generation" was truly excellent, and I've had a long-held, deeply felt conviction that those folks really were THE Greatest Generation, too. Sometimes I'm not too sure that those who followed have measured up very well to the legacy they bequeathed to us...

[Own Drummer]

Paul Fussel, the author of "Class" and "BAD". (Both books should be required reading for college freshmen, btw.) Although a terrifying liberal, he is unafraid to skewer pretension wherever he sees it.

Rowland Evans was the last liberal I could actually watch on TV without feeling the need to snarl at the screen like a rabid dog.

Other than that, they pretty much all give me a cramp.

[Timocrat]

Pat Caddell(SP?) the Democrat pollster, who was more outspoken in his criticism of Clinton than most "conservative" politicians.

[clintonh8r]

I agree that Hiasson is funny but I don't think he's likable (according to my sister, who knows him). Also, his books are becoming formulaeic.

[chimera]

I'll put in a personal plug for Alan Colmes. I disagree with him on the issues but tries to see both sides. Have had some correspondence with him and he seems reasonable, and answered everything fairly with a touch of humor on occasion.

Its hard for me to think of Tony Blair as anything other than another socialist third-wayer, but at least on the terrorism issue he has stepped up to the plate and taken a stand, something the Euro-weenies seem, as usual, to be waffling on.

[The Great Satan]

Harlan Ellison.

[headsonpikes]

I like that Nat Hentoff fellow...writes in the Village Voice.

He seems to be a good chap.

[PJ-Comix]

But your comments about Sharpton tell me you don't like him but that he's a useful idiot.

Actually I do LIKE Sharpton if I don't consider Tawany Brawley and a couple of other episodes. I definitely think it would be a lot more fun to talk man-to-man with Sharpton than any of the other Demmycrat candidates since I don't think the others would be very open and would remain in campaign mode. I've heard Sharpton interviewed on the Howard Stern show and he talks like a real person (although one whom I disagree with politically).

[BibChr]

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And there you have it.

Dan

[Drew68]

While I disagree with everything she has to say, I do enjoy reading Molly Ivin's columns. She has a quick wit. I remember when 60 Minutes teamed her and PJ O'Rourke together for a left/right commentary on the show briefly back in the early 1990s. It was a good segment.

[shekkian]

I agree with you. It seems like an oxymoron, but you could describe Alan Colmes as a rational liberal. I love watching him and Hannity get into a spar, and then their guests start an all out brawl.

[Andyman]

I LOVE Isaac Asimov. I wrote him a letter when he was in his heyday, and he replied to it with a personal note. Very nice and a very brilliant man. A womanizer like the ex-prez. I know someone who was chased around a table by him too! Try reading his two-part autobiography. VERY intereting and entertaining.

[PJ-Comix]

Harlan Ellison.

A liberal and also very dislikeable. I ran across Ellison once late at night at a Hughes supermarket. He was walking up and down the cereal section taking notes and acting very indignant. Probably because he was mad about all the sugar and other lousy nutrients a lot of the cereals have. Hey, I say if someone wants to eat the sickeningly sweet Cocoa Puffs, let them. But Harlan acted like a madman about the cereal. There are also other stories about how annoying Ellison is. Not a likeable person so I can't say he is a liberal that I like.

[clintonh8r]

Man. Who haven't you run into?