Today's 'Liberals': Close-Minded, Nasty and Fringe

NewsMax.com ^ | 10/16/03 | Bernard Goldberg

[mimimo]

Just read this at Newsmax too.

Agree with Bernie all the way; they're also getting very dangerous IMHO too. (PCism can also get you fired from your job, too)

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[JesseHousman]

Eric Alterman charmingly told the interviewer, “I hate to say it, but I wish the guy [Rush Limbaugh] would have gone deaf.

I hate to say it, but I despise all liberals and dislike moderates.

[anniegetyourgun]

Bernie's right - this is going to be the election year of the "angry white lib/dem."

[okie01]

Ping.

Present company excluded, there is a lot of truth in what Goldberg says.

Too many of today's "liberals", in particular those in the media, are putting a mean-spirited face on the persuasion.

And many people who think they are liberal actually have more in common with conservatives than with those who claim to speak for them.

[wizardoz]

I like Bernie just fine, but I am not sure I agree with his thesis, which seems to be essentially that the side that plays nicest must be right. I'm the right-wing version of Alterman, I suppose. I detest liberals. I wish horrible things on them regularly and without remorse. I wish they'd go away. I don't have them over for dinner either. I'll hold a civil conversation with them, but only because I'm hoping to convert them. The unconvertable ones I wish would go play in front of an IDF bulldozer.

But I don't consider this making me "as bad as them." Because how you fight is not what makes you better. What you fight for is. I'm sure they feel the same way, but that doesn't mean that this is, then, a deadlock. One has to look and see whose policies, when implemented, have done what over the years. It's evident what Marxism has done. Therefore, my side is objectively right, and I don't have to be charming about it to be on the correct side.

But that's JMHO.

[Jim Noble]

America, Alterman tells Esquire, “would be better without Rush Limbaugh and his 20 million listeners.” The interview gives no clue as to whether Alterman wishes the 20 million Americans would also go deaf – or just drop off the face of the Earth

Oh, no.

I don't think he "wishes they would drop off the face of the earth".

This is what happens when leftists come to power:

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Read the libearal Lexicon on my freeper homepage

[SwinneySwitch]

Liberalism is a Sin!

[3catsanadog]

So Alterman would like to do away with Ann, Rush and 20 million American citizens.

If he and his ilk get his way and turn this fine land into a socialist, quasi-communist country, he may get his wish because governments of those types have a tendancy to imprison and/or execute those who don't graduate with high grades from the re-education camps.

What he also doesn't realize is that those governments force bootlickers like Alterman back into anyonymity (sp?) as just another worker for the State.

[My2Cents]

this is going to be the election year of the "angry white lib/dem."

Maybe, but no one but them is drinking their Kool-Aid.

The Democrat Party is definitely the "liberal" party in America, but the problem for them is that liberalism is basically bankrupt. Beyond its liberalism, the Democrat Party has become something akin to the incarnation of evil in American society. It's a sick, cancerous, depraved political institution, mainly because it is the refuge of angry lefists.

I used to think that the Democrats might purge themselves of their evil, and return to being a party of integrity and principle, but of the liberal persuasion. Now I see that because of the bankrupt nature of their ideology, all the Democrats have at their disposal are lies, hate, race-baiting, class-warfare, fear-mongering, politics-of-personal-destruction, and appeals to folks who hate America. Our unifying objective should be to crush the Democrat Party, to choke the life out of it, and to throw it on the ash heap of history.

Watching the Democrats, it's clear that power is a narcotic (only remedied by a humble attitude of public service while in office), and the Democrats are suffering from severe withdrawal. The Dems remind me of a heroin addict with the shakes who will do and say absolutely anything to get another fix. They've lost all sense of propriety and dignity. They don't even put up a civil front any more. They're just a sick, pathetic group of junkies who would sell their grandmothers' jewelry for another fix. They are self-absorbed, and self-destructive. They should all be in rehab. I don't think the majority of Americans are so codependent that they'll give these addicts access to the White House in the near future.

[Noumenon]

The fact is that liberals, more than anything else, need to remember how to be liberal - and not let the angry fringe hijack a philosophy that once, a long time ago, was something to be proud of.

Berie, me lad, yer just a'whistlin' past the graveyard on this one.

American Civil War II bump.

[Agitate]

Kattracks, you are truely one of the best posters here. Thanks for this one.

[Roscoe Karns]

Unbelievable...Look at this!

[3catsanadog]

Just read a little bit of this. Have bookmarked your site. Will print the Lexicon. This should be published as a dictionary to buy!

It's on the mark!

[Jorge]

Bernie's right - this is going to be the election year of the "angry white lib/dem."

I don't know. We saw just the opposite happen in California.

Seems like there is MORE anger at the lib/dems. And precisely for their outrageous hateful rhetoric we see itemized above.

[MeekOneGOP]

Once liberals were like John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. They were upbeat and enthusiastic – and mainstream. These days they’re more like Eric Alterman and Michael Moore and Al Franken. They’re closed-minded and nasty - and fringe.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>>In the exchange with Esquire, Eric Alterman, who writes a column for the Nation, a far-left political magazine, charmingly told the interviewer, “I hate to say it, but I wish the guy [Rush Limbaugh] would have gone deaf.” Call me crazy, but when Alterman says, “I hate to say it,” I have the funny feeling that he really means “I love to say it.”

Yes, he loves to say it. he is a hate-filled bigot. Democrats like Nathan Bedford Forrest would be proud of Eric Alterman.


>>>>>>Anyway, it’s not just Rush Limbaugh that he’d like to see go away. It’s also all those hopelessly ordinary, not-too-smart Middle Americans who find Rush so interesting that Alterman has no use for, either. America, Alterman tells Esquire, “would be better without Rush Limbaugh and his 20 million listeners.”

Wow, imagine how much ear pollution we'd forego if Eric Alterman just took a dirt nap.

>>>>>>>>The interview gives no clue as to whether Alterman wishes the 20 million Americans would also go deaf – or just drop off the face of the Earth. But we do learn that in Eric Alterman’s America there’s no place for Ann Coulter, either. “I debase myself every time I say her name,” he told Esquire.

Well, she doesn't Alterman is important enough to notice. What a collossal so what.


At about the same time, he was telling the Los Angeles Times, “I don’t have to my house for dinner anyone who’s not pro-choice, pro-gun control … pro-campaign finance reform.”

Do they fill those questionaires out on line or in person?

What a putz...

[Jimmy Valentine]

Thnk you for posting this graphic illustration of just what Socialist government will do. 25% of the Cambodian population MURDERED in the name of a perfect society.

Regards,