Linguistic attacks leave Left crippled

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[Spacemonkey1023]

This lady's kidding me, right? Come on, the Republicans aren't the one who have the monopoly on words, unfortunately. I mean, come on. Just talk to any lib-rul and they'll be spewing on definitions of racism, feminism, normality, and pretty much any issue under the sun, up to and including the word "is." Get your facts straight lady.

[OpusatFR]

Conservatives have just learned from your knee, lady.

It took some catch-up, but we are getting there.

I think her attitude is hateful and bigoted. ( ;

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

This lady's kidding me, right?

My reaction exactly. Either that or she hasn't done her homework and knows nothing about even recent history.

The left has long distorted the meaning of words and phrases. "Affirmative Action" leaps to mind -- the liberal euphemism for legally sanctioned discrimination against white males. "Pro-Choice" is another -- pro-abortion only, not choice in anything else.

[SwinneySwitch]

Now we're pro-life instead of anti-abortion!

They're still pro-death!IMHO

[KC_Conspirator]

This young idiot does not know what she is talking about. The left controls the language and only recently has the "right" learned this fact. Try finding the words "illegal alien" anywhere in the liberal media. Its all "undocumented worker" and other lies. Try finding any pro-lifer on liberal TV and they are all "anti-abortion". I am going to email this young lady and give her some advice: sitting in a college cafe, hating Amerca, is no way to go through life.

[RightWhale]

This is funny stuff. The Liberals think they have lost the battle of the Language? They will, eventually, but the tide has only just begun to turn. At least the leaders of the eggheads admit that Marxism is dead.

[Vision]

Given the truth of this statement, the parlance of our times has never been so dangerous.

hahaha....

[ancient_geezer]

Democratic Party representatives come across as whiny, combative and - worst of all - reactive rather than proactive.

DUHHH! That's because they are LOL.

[TalBlack]

..."They (the right wing) won the linguistic debate. And when you win the linguistic debate, you've won the debate. Period."...."

Sorry, lady, you're just angry because your side IS LOSING THE ARGUMENT!

It has been a given for the last 20 or 30 years that the Left are the great distorters and co-opters of language. Hell, they have to change what they call THEMSELVER every few years because people begin to catch on!

What is "Pro-choice" but a diversion away from a true description of what that "choice" is? "Pro life" is, well pro life! Pretty tricky huh?

No, hon, you're losing traction and rou are not honest enough to recognize that fact. For you it HAS to be the Evil of the Right---which is why I believe the Left will begin terrorist operations in the USA in less than three years. They are too wilfully blinded by their "religious" fanatacisim and as a result have nowhere else to go. It'll be like 1968 all over again.

[e5man_r_u?]

We are only pro-life when they are trying to prove a point about language. We are abortion demontrators in news stories. This way they can portray us as the people blocking clinics and shouting.

Thus priving that the right has not yet won, but only caught on.

[Yardstick]

Typical breathless overstatement from a college-age liberal. She floors the gas from the first sentence and leaves it there till she's done. It's wall to wall drama. Every adjective is maxed out -- the whole thing's just one giant superlative. What language has she left for herself when she actually encounters real evil manipulator?

"shone light on a blade wielded so wisely and ferociously by the Right"

"Bush's brilliance in the linguistic arena"

"Never mind the program is severely overburdened and underfunded, rendering Bush's promises totally hypocritical and void of meaning."

"Therein lies the majesty of what the Right has done. Everyone agrees with them"

"...disclose our confidential personal information to innumerable intelligence agencies..."

"exposing the truth behind such beautifully packaged refuse"

Etc, etc...

Liberals, learn to modulate a little! You don't have to peg the needle the whole time.

[proust]

"The left controls the language and only recently has the "right" learned this fact."

Absolutely correct. The left has done more to control the language of politics.

Liberals = Progressives.
Illegal alien = undocumented worker.
Raising you taxes = increasing your contribution.

[Cultural Jihad]

She's just whining because the left has no valid defense for the crushing of little babies' skulls or the spreading of self-inflicted diseases by sexual deviants. Rather than rant against the right, she is ranting against God and nature.

[Cautor]

President Bush - or rather, his political cadre - have manipulated and mastered the arsenal of language, an arsenal that, fortunately for him and neocons everywhere, the American public has grossly underestimated.

Hey, this writing is as good as any by Tom Shales. In fact, it's looking like almost anyone who can pen a leftist screed can write as well as Shales.

[Siegfried]

...a weapon bungled and broken by the Democratic Party.

Ummm, Erica honey, it's the Democrat Party. These people are the Democrats, not the Democratics, you know. I thought you made yourself out to be some sort of expert on word usage, so I'm surprised at your obvious ignorance on this point.

:p

[reed_inthe_wind]

John.1
[1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
[2] He was in the beginning with God;
[3] all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
[4] In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
[5] The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

[Lucky Dog]

What kind of “funny cigarettes” has this woman been smoking? The PC culture is entirely based upon controlling language…

Where did the term “hate speech” originate?

I do not recall any “conservative group” instituting any “speech code” at any college or university. From which side did such onerous restrictions originate?

Was it a conservative that fired an employee from Washington DC civil service for using the word “niggardly?”

Was it conservatives who decided that “cripples” had to be called “handicapped” and then “disabled” and then “challenged” and then “alternately enabled?”

Was it conservatives who decided that a an unmarried woman could not be addressed as “Miss” or a married woman as “Mrs.” And that all must be “Ms.?”

Was it conservatives who insist on calling homosexuals “gay” rather than “queer?”

Was it conservatives who insisted that a female committee head could not be addressed as “chairman,” rather, had to be a “chairperson?”

The list is endless. Come to think of it, she couldn't’t have been smoking “funny cigarettes.” It had to be a much stronger hallucinogenic.

[highlander_UW]

Kidding aside, we begin to see the veiled acumen of Republicans' stake on euphemisms. Everyone loves children and has a vested interest in their future. We all strive to embody patriotism, especially post-Sept. 11. No one, in her heart of hearts, wants to see a mockery made of marriage.

What she fails to understand is that these issues are not just euphemisms. There most certainly ARE people who sincerely desire unpatriotic results, and most of them are Dims. They, of course, don't want to be accurately labeled...it gets in the way of their activities and offends their senses.

And there most certainly ARE people who are clambering for nothing less than making a mockery of the institution of marriage, and some are doing so as part of their platforms as nominees to be the Dimocrat presidential candidate...but again, they would much rather it not be couched in accurate terms because that decreases their successes.

[Reddy]

The libs birthed (no pun intended) the use of linguistics to win over minds with their Madison Avenue inspired "women's right to choose" campaign in the '70s. Notice they never mentioned that it was the right to choose to kill your own child.

The author also forgot to mention the '90s mantra of the libs- "It's for the CHILDREN!" as evidenced by the children's vaccination program debacle, signed by none other than linguistically inclined Bill Clinton.