Posted on 01/12/2011 2:11:27 PM PST by Syncro
LIBERALS SEEK BAN ON METAPHORS IN WAKE OF ARIZONA SHOOTING
January 12, 2011
After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we've got to pass Obama's agenda immediately and stop using metaphors.
At least I think that's what the mainstream media are trying to tell me.
Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner.
Of course, to make their case, they first must demonstrate:
(a) Right-wingers have called for violence against anyone, especially conservative, pro-Second Amendment Democratic congresswomen;
(b) Loughner was listening to them; and
(c) Loughner was influenced by them.
They've proved none of this. In fact, it's nearly the opposite.
Needless to say, no conservative has called for violence against anyone. Nor has any conservative engaged in any "rhetoric" that was likely to lead to violence. Every putative example of "violent rhetoric" these squeamish liberals produce keeps being matched by an identical example from the Democrats.
Sarah Palin, for example, had a chart of congressional districts being targeted by Republicans. So did the Democratic Leadership Committee. Indeed, Democratic consultant Bob Beckel went on Fox News and said he invented the bull's-eye maps.
Similarly, every time liberals produce an example of military lingo from a Republican -- "we're going to target this district" -- Republicans produce five more from the Democrats.
President "whose asses to kick" Obama predicted "hand-to-hand combat" with his political opponents and has made such remarks as "if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" -- making Obama the first American president to advocate gun fights since Andrew Jackson.
These are figures of speech known as "metaphors." (Do liberals know where we got the word "campaign"?)
It's not that both sides did something wrong; neither side did anything wrong. The drama queens need to settle down.
The winner of the most cretinous statement of 2011 -- and the list is now closed, so please hold your submissions -- is MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who on Monday night recalled Palin's statement, "We're not retreating, we're reloading," and said, I quote, "THAT'S not a metaphor."
Really, Chris? If that's not a metaphor, who did she shoot?
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
Well, if they couldn't write, we couldn't read it.
Of course it could only been read by a reader.
That would work for a tagline. Not that there is anything wrong with what you have now!
The verb is first attested 1701Did it do time?
Oop, thought it said "arrested"
: > )
Chris Matthews wets his pants nightly on MSNBC - that is when his leg isn’t tingling or his spittle is flying. The guy has become a cartoon.I always hope for the trifecta when I cruize by DNC-MSNBC
Thanks for the info. :)
The fact that an etymological dictionary can be just a click away is just another wonderful thing about the Internet.IMHO we all should use it more.
Our Annie zings them gloriously as she always does. It’s really no wonder the libs want to shut our guys/gals up.
Great column by the Great Ann.
Good one.
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