Your Media Guide to Describing Liberals and Conservatives

DotPenn.com ^ | 4-12-2010 | Sven Waring

[SvenWaring]

Ever notice that rich people are eccentric and poor people are weird?

Or that there's no male equivalent to the word, slut?

The same thing happens when the media describes leftists and conservatives.

Here's your media guide to understanding how to describe actions by liberals and conservatives:

Liberals exercise their First Amendment rights; conservatives are divisive.

Liberals are passionate; conservatives are violent and repressive.

Liberals are steadfast against an agenda; conservatives are wrecking the spirit of bipartisanship.

Liberals form a group of protesters; conservatives form mobs.

[Arthur McGowan]

Liberals say. Conservatives claim.

[MrEdd]

At first glance - slut has become gender nuetral. The old word for males was “cad”.

There never was a time in western society when moral people only condemned promiscuity in women. That is prety much a muslim deal.

[I still care]

I remember during the Clinton impeachment Dan Rather biased described Ted Kennedy as well, Ted Kennedy, but he was with the far right Jessie Helms.

It’s funny how congress was full of only regular folks and far right people. Far left people must have been in China somewhere.

[GOP Poet]

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[gogogodzilla]

Or that there's no male equivalent to the word, slut?

Yes there is, it's called a casanova.

[Vaduz]

Liberals are steadfast against Liberty and Freedom.

[SvenWaring]

It just doesn’t have the same cache. It’s sort of a compliment. Likewise “cad” is a bit of a pat on the back.