[Pharmboy]

The cyber edition left out a few things that the print edition had, a call-out bolded copy and a short note on the author:

Linking consumer preferences to personal values--can the talk radio hosts of the left compete?

Geoffrey Nunberg, a Stanford linguist, is heard regularly on NPR's "Fresh Air" and is the author of "The Way We Talk Now."

Can anyone get the point this linguist is attempting to make? That libs have been picked on by the media? That conservatives have NOT been picked on? Is this guy the dumbest Stanford perfessor ever? Help me out here, Freeps...

And another thing: when Ann Coulter says "my people" she doesn't mean that she COMES from Queens you dolt; she means that they SUPPORT her...

[woofer]

Phrases like "latte liberal" and "Volvo liberals" have nothing to do with what anybody actually buys — they're plays on pure brand aura. Liberals are exactly the sort of people you would expect to drink an expensive, milky coffee concoction and to drive a safe, practical car from socialist Sweden.

My all-time favorite euphemism of a radical liberal: Watermelon.

Green on the outside. Red on the inside.

[The Electrician]

But branding is a game that two could play, if liberals cared to leaven substance with style themselves.

Again he trots out the old lie about liberals being too concerned with substance, policy, etc. to play the unthinking sloganeering, jingoistic games that the right employs via talk radio. Substance over style? Ever hear Bill Clinton speak/lie?

[P.O.E.]

Liberals may think they're funny, but they mostly are just good at sitting back and writing "nyah-nyah" insults, and haven't the stomach for debate.

[aculeus]

My contributions:

Mercedes Marxists.

Concorde Commies.

[gitmo]

Can anyone get the point this linguist is attempting to make?

I think this article is supposed to be a practical demonstration of why liberal talk-shows invariably fail. They have no concept of logic nor of cogent thought.

[Porterville]

Couldn't read through the whole thing, I hate liberals way too much. Too stupid, too base, too animal like; whenever I try to understand a liberal I feel I am trying to communicate with my dog.

[A_perfect_lady]

Liberals too nuanced??? Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!! OMG....

[6ppc]

liberalism as something between a personality disorder and a market segment

Sounds right to me.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Flyover Latte, anyone?