Swordmaker, I find your posts about Macs to be sensible and informative, and I find this article to easily qualify for "Bookmark" significance - and therefore I add my ping to yours. In fact, I went for the full instead of the usual, less-intrusive list - a "maximum effort" ping.Liberals very much recognize themselves. I remember watching "Hannity & Colmes," and Sean Hannity said of Nancy Pelosi that she's a San Francisco liberal, and immediately Alan Colmes yelled at him that he was trying to demonize her. How do you demonize someone by stating the facts?I agree that this is challenging stuff. Here, I'm going to limit my commentary to discussing the ending of the piece:
So suddenly they decide, "Okay, people have caught onto us about Liberalism; now let's call ourselves progressive. We won't be progressive in the slightest. It's just a name. It's just an advertising slogan."
. . . because it is up my alley. I have often made the point that journalists call themselves "objective" even tho taking your own objectivity for granted is the very definition of subjectivity. And that journalists call nonjournalists who agree with journalists' own opinion of themselves and the overriding significance of their negative, superficial drivel by positive labels such as "liberal" (which they have pretty much run into the ground) and "progressive" (even though as the author of the piece points out, they actually have nothing to "progress" to). And that when journalists call us - who believe in liberty and therefore in the ability of individuals to make changes in the hope of progress - "conservative," they mean it as a pejorative.And I have called those usages of words "Newspeak" inversions of meaning. But Sayet's
"It's just an advertising slogan"is an excellent way of putting it. I expect to be using it. Like all good ideas, it seems obvious in retrospect.The Market for Conservative-Based News
BTTT
BM & FBD, THIS is required reading, just follow the link.
While compared to what's usually posted here in length, considering the subject the author synopsizes the predicament extremely well. Man does an exemplary job with his research into what makes today's Liberal-Socialist buggers *tick*.
Among many excellent points the author does say, paraphrased, "We must take back our institutions of higher learning etc etc...to which I say, too late for taking anything back, now.
That means just one thing.
Either of you two care to venture a guess what that "thing" will very likely be?
... -BTTT-
...Mr. Sayet IS correct regarding his observations of Modern Liberals in America.
I'm quite sure you may have gotten a whiff of the rather smelly controversy emanating from The Peoples' Republic Of Berkley (CA), in which the City Council wrote a letter to the U.S. Marine Corps requesting they shut down the recruitment center on Shadduck Avenue.
That is but one of many of examples of pure, unadulterated hatred and stupidity that comes from the Left, especially when a U.S. city council grants an odious group of morons like Code Pink a permanent parking space of protest (which of course is their First Amendment right, given in the shed blood of the very Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen they loathe), while shunning those brave men and women risking their lives on a daily basis, not just in Iraq but practically all over the entire planet!
...Oh, but they're always quick to say, 'We Support The Troops.'
Yeah, right.