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Greenfield: Liberal Newspeak
Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog ^ | Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/11/2013 4:49:46 AM PST by Louis Foxwell

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To: Louis Foxwell

Well written, sir!


21 posted on 12/11/2013 5:53:24 AM PST by Teacher317 (Obama is failing faster than I can lower my expectations.)
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To: Oratam

And a cheery welcome to you as well, patriot.


22 posted on 12/11/2013 6:07:01 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Unlike most people, I watch television commercials very carefully looking for the REAL messages they are intent on conveying. I get extremely offended at seeing how absolutely stupid they think we are and the specific agendas they push.
If I was a martian landing here, I would think that only black people could afford brand new, bright shiney houses with two upscale cars in the garage, his and hers, That only black women clean their already spotless homes. That all black male models look like obama and are CEO material who wear the best suits and work out to stay physically fit. That white men are overweight and wear plaid flannel shirts and look to their black bosses in white hardhats for guidance on everything from car insurance to cellphones.
I see white women in the kitchen trying to chop onions with a machete and once they have the gadget that chops onions for them, they stand there bobbing their heads and smiling like total ditzes.
The most recent commercial that just stripped all my gears was a weight loss ad featuring an obese black woman with a gap between her teeth as wide as the Santa Ana Freeway emoting about how much better she feels about herself since she lost 30 pounds taking something called lipozene.
White men and women are bumblers and cannot ever seem to do anything right without the black, and sometimes hispanic,shelf stocker at Home Depot or Best Buy telling them what they need and why they need it.
michelle obama spends gazillions of government dollars to starve our kids in school, but every black ‘comedy’ on TV features obese black men and women and this is supposed to be funny.
It is no wonder that government pays so many ad agencies the high dollars to reach the lowest common denominators in their bases.
It is so much easier to be TOLD what you ‘think’ than to actually think. Visual messages are just as influential as words and they are prolific.
It is sheer laziness in a society that USED to be thoughtful, industrious, and creative.
The seiu wants everyone to be housekeepers and make other people’s beds, or serve the wealthy breakfast in bed. Be a waiter or some other service peon, pay your dues, and then go back to the laundry room and wash those hotel sheets and other people’s dirty clothes for minimum wage...but don’t ever try to make reservations for the penthouse suite yourself.
Let the union do your thinking and keep you on their straight and narrow and SERVE your masters but don’t ever try to become one.
If you HAD a job that was industrious, you are most likely collecting unemployment now and being told you deserve to sit at home or at the local pub and collect what you are ‘owed’ while your jobs have left the country never to return, but instead of fighting for those jobs, you are content with being TAUGHT that lazy is good and work is for idiots.
I could go on and on, but it’s just words, isn’t it?


23 posted on 12/11/2013 6:44:22 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: gattaca

Good one gattaca...


24 posted on 12/11/2013 6:57:04 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: IronJack
To the Left, it’s always about the package, never the contents.

Amen IronJack...

25 posted on 12/11/2013 7:00:01 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Louis Foxwell
Knish is one of my five must reads for the day. Always a good use of my time to read whatever Knish is talking about. We gave up on newspapers years ago and that reading time is now spread among good writers and blogs. Knish is one of the best.
26 posted on 12/11/2013 7:00:38 AM PST by mountainfolk (God Bless the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Please stop using the word ‘liberal’. As stretched out as semantics has become, the word to use with leftists, Marxists, communists, and the like is ‘progressives’.

Cancer is progressive, and leftism is spread thusly.

liberal means ‘free’, or generous.

Does any of the left’s agenda strike you as either?


27 posted on 12/11/2013 7:10:17 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Mr. K
Great insight into the liberal sphere. I don't know if liberals are the purveyors or the victims of liberal newspeak. They do seem to be trapped in an emotional dream world.
28 posted on 12/11/2013 7:26:17 AM PST by oldbrowser ("From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" .....Marx)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Liberals hate the word ‘liberal’. It’s why they’ve attempted to re-brand themselves as ‘progressives’.

Sorry, they are NOT progressive - they are idiots marching backwards with flags flying high - singing songs signifying nothing...

We call them “liberals” because they hate the term they’ve ruined.


29 posted on 12/11/2013 7:39:26 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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Liberals hate the word ‘liberal’. It’s why they’ve attempted to re-brand themselves as ‘progressives’.

Sorry, they are NOT progressive - they are idiots marching backwards with flags flying high - singing songs signifying nothing...

We call them “liberals” because they hate the term they’ve ruined.


30 posted on 12/11/2013 7:40:03 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: GOPJ

Progressive, you know, like cancer.


31 posted on 12/11/2013 7:53:59 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

Sorry, I’m NOT going to make a bunch of liberals happy...


32 posted on 12/11/2013 7:59:01 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: GOPJ

You mean ‘gay’, right. Same as happy.


33 posted on 12/11/2013 8:03:43 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Louis Foxwell

“It is not possible to have a rational conversation with a liberal because liberals are not guided by rational discourse.”

Avoid any if not all interactions with rabid liberals.

They got stuck between their terrible twos and being an irrational teenager, and they have never evolved from that irrational emotional affliction.


34 posted on 12/11/2013 8:06:34 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( Obamacare, “It’s a Wonderful Lie!" Obamaganda is failing 24/7! Soon Obamaganda will fail 24/365)
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To: GOPJ

Thanks!


35 posted on 12/11/2013 8:23:26 AM PST by gattaca ("If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Liberal Newspeak is the chirpy announcer in a drug commercial soothingly telling you about all the fatal side effects while on screen couples have romantic picnics and go whitewater rafting.

Had me blowing coffee out of my nose. Give the Sultan some hits.

36 posted on 12/11/2013 9:10:29 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Mr. K

very very good


37 posted on 12/11/2013 9:47:49 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Louis Foxwell
It's not that these words don't have meanings. It's that their meanings have been rendered meaningless. The techniques of advertising have been used to pluck up words that people once felt comfortable with and wrap them around the agendas of the liberal bureaucracy.
This entire article uses the term “liberal” as if its connotation of “socialist” were unexceptionable. And says that
Unlike Newspeak, Liberal Newspeak doesn't engage in any showy inversions of meaning.
- except that the very word “liberal” had its meaning inverted in the 1920s.

38 posted on 12/11/2013 11:41:56 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: jsanders2001
"The critical thinking in his essays Is excellent."

And he is prolific.

An amazing combination actually.

39 posted on 12/11/2013 6:11:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Mr. K

I have been making some progress with libtards lately

I ask them how they would solve the problems of health care, and we genrally agree that it is too huge to imagine... so I ask what makes “the government” so much smarter that they can solve it? Why is “the government” this big machine that you input problems on one end and good solutions come out the other end?

Once you get them to agree BOTH parties SUCK and government in general sucks, then why do they want MORE OF IT???

it is good timing for this kind of conversation with all the stupid coming out of washington so visibly lately


40 posted on 12/11/2013 6:51:13 PM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it. Period.)
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