This is a good list of why it is so hard to get past these dunderheads. This is the "in defense of liberals" talking point bible. Read it, Learn it, Know how to recognize the self-deception they've come to live by:
Lies About Liberals
The time has come for someone to set the record straight. Obviously the media won't do it and I'm growing more and more afraid the Democrats can't do it. Someone has to get the message out that the vast majority of information and opinion that is circulating about American liberals is utter nonsense. From the mischaracterizations of the Bush administration to the rabid anti-liberal hate of the media to the stunning ignorance of the average voter, it's almost all wrong.
At the lower levels - voters, local politicians - I am willing to give conservatives the benefit of the doubt. I'll let them get away with saying that they just don't know any better. Heck, most of them have probably never met a liberal. And those who have probably only remember the crazy-sounding, granola-crunching, loud-talking, bicycling-all-over-town-without-showering, ZZ-top-beard-growing guy with a strange hat, a Nader t-shirt and sandals on. Let me make it perfectly clear that these people are not liberals. These people are socialists or Communists. And unless you are ignorant or evil, you know that there are huge differences between liberals and socialists and Communists.
At the higher levels - pundits, writers, politicians, presidents - there is no excuse. These people work with liberals on a daily basis. These people debate with liberals regularly. These people are completely knowledgeable about what liberals really stand for and really do. These people are unmitigated and unrepentant liars. And this isn't just a few people, this is a huge wave of hate and bile that is being told to the public as truth, when, in reality, it couldn't possibly be any more untrue. Listen to any conservative politician talk about liberals, watch any television news show that features a conservative, listen to any show on talk radio, go to one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of anti-liberal web sites online - in all of these places you will find a broad and deep flood of bullshit being spouted about liberals. Much of it will be the exact opposite of what liberals actually believe and stand for.
Below is a composite list of the many lies that I have come across. These have come from many sources, but I'll only include the sources that are readily accessible online so that you can go read the original yourself. These lies come from a variety of sources - from prominent national figures to lowly nobodies whose most famous moment in life will be when I publish this essay on my web page. I will update this list as I come across more. The numbers after each lie correspond to the sources they came from, which are listed at the end of this page.
- Liberals hate America (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9) : This is obviously untrue. Liberals live in America and we resist every call for us to leave the country if we don't like it just the way it is. The truth is we lover America even more than the conservatives do, we're just much better at recognizing reality. America is a great nation, but it is a great nation with flaws. In order for America to be an even greater nation, we should work on eliminating those flaws. And that's what liberals want to do. Conservatives want to maintain the status quo or, even worse, roll back much of the progress we have made as a country. We're going to do what we can to stop them.
- Liberals are out to destroy America (1, 3, 4, 7, 11) : Clearly this is untrue. There isn't one liberal in the entire country that has any interest in destroying America . We are Americans and we live in America . If America were destroyed we'd all have to move to Canada and it's much too cold up there.
- Liberals are traitors or treasonous (1, 3) : Obviously, conservatives either don't invest their money in a dictionary, can't read or don't know the address of dictionary.com. A traitor is one who betrays one's country and betrayal is defined, in one sense, as treason. Treason is defined as "Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign." The Constitution also specifically outlines the only ways one can be convicted of treason in the U.S. : "levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Clearly no liberals are levying war against the U.S. It would take an extreme stretch of reality and logic to find that any liberals are adhering to U.S. enemies. I don't know that any liberals are giving any aid to U.S. enemies and while our opposition to war may give them comfort, rest assured that we are willing to go to war if there is an actual legitimate reason to do so, something conservatives don't need in order to send American's young people to death.
- Liberals hate themselves (1) : I've known many liberals, seen many on television, heard many on radio and record and read many books by liberals and haven't seen the slightest shred of evidence that any liberal hates him or herself. Liberals typically have very high self-esteem.
- Liberals are mindless (2) : Liberals tend to be intellectual and thoroughly examine real world evidence in support of their viewpoints, changing those views if the evidence warrants a change.
- Liberals are liars (3, 5, 12, 14) : Every human being is a liar. Liberals are less likely to lie than most. One of the biggest tenets of liberalism is honesty, even if the truth doesn't agree with your preconceived notions. Obviously there are liberals who don't do this, but a true liberal would call the dishonest person to task. The only way to win the battle is to do it honestly. Nothing will get a liberal ridiculed quicker than getting caught in a lie, so we do our best not to do it and to be the first to ridicule those liberals who we see doing it.
- Liberals manufacture quotes (3) : I'm sure that at some point, somewhere in the world a liberal has done this, but I've never heard of it happening or seen any evidence to support this contention.
- Liberals call conservatives names (3) : Everyone calls everyone names. Conservatives are much more likely to call people names than are liberals. In fact the very quote which this item comes from calls someone a name in the very same sentence it condemns name-calling. Talk about your hypocrisy. "What liberals normally do in response to a principled conservative argument is lie, manufacture quotes, and call conservatives names - as some dissolute drunk did in the New York Post a few days later."
- Liberals don't read books - they don't read anything (3) : I can legitimately claim to have read more than 800 books in my lifetime. I have a library of more than 2000 books at my home that I am working my way through. Every liberal I know has a huge library and it is far from a library for show - liberals love books. Books contain ideas and liberals love ideas. Sure, we don't read the latest Charles Murray or Dinesh D'Souza propaganda or the newest Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh screed, but we read actual books with actual ideas written by actual scholars who conduct actual research.
- Liberals vote on the basis of urges (3) : Sure we do, like the urge to pick the candidate who will do the best job for the American people. Like the urge to avoid voting for candidates who are racist or homophobic or jingoistic or who hate the poor.
- Abortion is liberals' only remaining cause (3) : I don't have the slightest idea where this one is coming from. How about stopping U.S. unilateral invasion of Iraq ? Or defending affirmative action? Or protecting homosexual rights? Or stopping racial profiling? Or stopping the Bush administration's erosion of the Constitution? Or stopping the Bush administrations erosion of the wall of separation between church and state? Or protecting the environment? Or stopping dumb-ass pundits from making dumb-ass comments? And these are just the causes that seem really important this week.
- Liberals want to spread anarchy (3) : Obviously not. We favor the Democratic system and are big proponents of law and order - fair law and order.
- Liberals want to spread perversity (3) : Something that is perverse is defined as "Directed away from what is right or good." Liberals' entire agenda is about trying to reach for what is right or good - what is really right or good, not what one narrow Christian advocacy group says is right or good.
- Liberals denigrate America (5) : Telling the truth is not denigrating. America is not a squeaky-clean place and it is necessary in a free democratic society to make sure that our errors are brought to light.
- Liberals denigrate American heroes (6) : As I said above, telling the truth is not denigrating. If we venerate people who were racist or owned slaves or abused women or slaughtered Native Americans, we are sending a message to children that these actions were perfectly acceptable.
- Liberals despise the military and want to weaken it (6, 9, 14) : Liberals don't despise the military and, in fact, are quite fond of soldiers. We're so fond of them, we don't think they should be killed in meaningless wars or wars of aggression. What we despise are leaders who send the military into situations that are unnecessary and unjust. We don't want to weaken the military, but we know that unlimited military spending is pointless and helps no one. We favor realistic military spending - spending that has some relationship to our goals and needs as a country. When Republican members of Congress pass funding for $2 billion dollar stealth bombers that the Pentagon doesn't even want, we think that is stupid.
- Liberals venerate those who seek to tear our country down (6) : We certainly do not. We totally oppose those who seek to tear down America . We even have a name for those who say the worst things about our country, who say how bad things are here and how they're getting worse all the time - we call these people conservatives.
Too bad, So sad, They [liberals] still lose, Buh-by.