We've invested decades of hard work into turning the word "liberal" into a "trigger word" (a word that arouse a negative reaction or emotion upon being heard....for those of you in Rio Linda).
Everytime I hear Beck say "progressive" I want to stuff an eraser into his luscious lips. There's nothing progressive about liberals.....and they WANT to be called progressive, so why is Glenn playing their game?
Hmmmm?
Leni
I think he is referring to them as progressive because he feels that that is the description they want to go to next, to get past the liberal label. So he is cutting them off at the pass.
There's nothing liberal about them, either. Liberal is defined as broad-minded, tolerant, generous. They're none of those things. In fact, they're the antithesis of those things.
We've invested decades of hard work into turning the word "liberal" into a "trigger word"
Do you feel the same way about Levin calling them "statists" (which is the most accurate word for them)?
Liberal come from the word liberty, something American Lefties are against.
Progressives on the other hand, have a long history as control freaks and eugenicists that progress towards the future. The future defined as a jackboot on the face of humanity.
I agree! Progressive is the word liberals have chosen for themselves. They are proud to say they are progressives. They avoid liberal as it has been proven to paint them in a bad light. The liberal brand must stay.
“...why is Glenn playing their game?”
Beck is actually playing O’REILLYs game, albeit apparently without realizing it....Beck is star-struck with O’Reillys attention, but doesn’t see or care that the overt lefties who play O’Reilly (both with and without O’Reillys blessings and cooperation, LOL) like an instrument - BECK CANNOT SEE PAST THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (maybe it’s oreilly-dust?), that he thinks he sees.
Remember when O’Reilly first got the radio show????? Remember the BEEG BEEG accomplishments he would soon make to put HIM at the TOP of that game LOL.
Never happened, DID it? (Did you also recall the shots over Rush’s bow just before and as he launched his radio massage-fest for the “folks”?
Beck’s a kid, and absent some unforeseen development to the contrary he can redeem himself by dropping the schtick UNCEREMONEOUSLY and with-no-further-ado - DROP O’REILLY!
BUT I think Beck thinks he has finally arrived, when he has chumped himself round-robin by becoming O’Reillys ally WRT Rush/Mark......but he’s gotta wise up fast if he’s not gone beyond the point in his own mind.
IMO, Beck’s only forte’ was getting the attention of “the folks”......somewhere along the way the schtick should have fallen away naturally.......but there is a baaad influence on him now, and its name is BILL O’REILLY AND HIS TREACHERY.