Liberal and proud

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | Monday, March 29, 2004 | Editorial

[bassmaner]

And with the wholehearted support of the likes of Hanoi Jane, Howard Stern, al-Qaida, France, Spanish socialists and Ms. vanden Heuvel, maybe he'll qualify for the liberal pantheon dedicated to Al Gore, Michael Dukakis and Fritz Mondale.

Seeing Howard Stern's name in with that crowd is more than a little ironic. Right after 9/11 (i.e. long before the Janet Jackson boob incident), Howard had lamented that America had become "too liberal" and would not have the guts to stick through a long, bloody conflict to defeat the terrorists. He also had criticized the Hollywood Left crowd such as Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, etc. for bad-mouthing America and the Bush Admin's Iraq policies. But after the Janet Jackson incident when the FCC went apesh*t, he did a 180-degree turnaround, became a shill for Kerry, and no doubt lost a good part of his audience (myself included).

And conveniently forgetting that the FCC under an Algore administration would have gone after him just as harshly.

I guess some people just never grow up - especially if they're lefties at heart.

[bassmaner]

These people are NOT liberals. They need to be called on it at every turn. They are the worst of all authoritarians - leftist, collectivist, fascists using the government to force their lifestyle beliefs on everyone.

Thanks, Mr. B, for continuing to highlight this distinction. I'm glad I'm not the only one crying in the wilderness to stop abusing the term "liberal": by continuing to use "liberal" to describe leftists, we negate the true meaning of the term.

It's time to stop allowing the Left to set the parameters of cultural discourse. They're not "liberals", "progressives", or "social justice advocates". They're "leftists", "socialists", and "communists". Live it, learn it, love it!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Here's another heroic liberal achievement:

70 years of appeasing communists - 100 million dead."


"It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war. "

- Lenin

[FourtySeven]

I guess some people just never grow up - especially if they're lefties at heart.

Indeed. You make a good point in your entire post really. Stern must think that his listeners are total idiots. Either that, or he knows that they know that he's just attacking Bush now because he IS a "shock jock". (which is what my theory is)

I still listen to him though because quite frankly, my brain is too tired in the morning drive to think about much more than flatulence, boobs, and the gossip game with Mike Walker.

I don't think Howard really means anything he says, which is kind of sad. One day he'll wake up and realize his audience is gone, and no one will believe him anymore because he's flip flopped even more than Kerry. Everything he's said or will say is just for the "shock value". I don't know why people take him more seriously than that.

Until that day though, I'll still listen. Just because I listen though, doesn't mean I support him, or will answer his call to "defend him at the polls in November". I suspect the same is true for any conservative that listens to his show. Everyone's already made up their mind already about the election. He doesn't have as much power as he thinks.

[aimhigh]

Although I agree with the article, without unemployment insurance, this last recession would have turned into a depression.

[wayoverontheright]

"Why not stand on liberalism's proud heritage?"

Is it now part of that proud heritage, opposition to the liberation of the once suffering, tortured people of Iraq?

[jcb8199]

If one looks at the last 2 centuries, we would see further "Liberal" contributions to humanity:

DEAD
English Civil War 100,000
American Revolution 25,000
French Revolution 200,000
Mexican Revolution 2,000,000
Russian Revolution 16,000,000
Chinese Revolution 60,000,000
TOTAL= 78,325,000

[bassmaner]

I still listen to him though because quite frankly, my brain is too tired in the morning drive to think about much more than flatulence, boobs, and the gossip game with Mike Walker.

Actually, he's been doing less flatulence, boobs, and gossip games lately, and a lot more Bush-bashing. Maybe if he moves to XM satellite, he could be himself again.

[boris]

"The history of Liberalism is the history of substituting what sounds good for what works" -- William F. Buckley (I think)

--Boris

[TASMANIANRED]

Liberalism is a form of mental illness. They are all delusional.

They look at failure and claim it is success. They look at slaughtering dictators and embrace and hail his ideology.

They live in utopian philosophy land and feeling land and never own the consequences of their actions..

[DLfromthedesert]

Voting Right Act = letting illiterates, illegals and dead people vote. Also printing ballots in 5000 languages.

[Porterville]

How could she forget Andrew Jackson, Senator KKK Bird, Ted the Murderer Kennedy, JFK and LBJ's war in Vietnam, Jimmy's sacrifice of the Canal, and Clinton's land grabs and allowing of murders of Innocent Africans? And all of the many other racist communist swines through out the history of the democrapic party.

[MrB]

"The history of Liberalism is the history of substituting what sounds good for what works" -- William F. Buckley (I think)

Good quote Boris, heck, claim it for yourself...