PoliticalChic
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1. In his defense of liberals, Alterman quotes this about liberals:
Often characterized as weak, elitist, out of touch, lacking in moral fiber, unpatriotic, unwilling to stand up for ourselves, and a general pox on the body politic the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease. Eric Alterman, Why Were Liberals.
2. Here's the reason liberal has become a dirty word. Because Communists, fellow-travelers, pro-terrorists, terrorist sympathizers have hijacked the word liberal and because organs like the New York Times have abetted them, using "liberal" to describe anti-American radicals and even totalitarian radicals like Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Michael Moore, the organizers of the anti-Iraq and pro-Saddam "peace" movement, and Katrina vanden Heuvel and the Nation. Why Liberalism Has A Bad Name
3. Dick Armey has written that the New Deal and the Great Society, on the one hand, and Soviet Russias five-year plans and Communist Chinas Great Leap Forward, on the other, were created by the same sort of person separated only by differences of power and nerve. Dick Armey, The Freedom Revolution: The New Republican House Majority Leader Tells Why Big Government Failed, Why Freedom Works, and How We Will Rebuild America
4. Newsweek warned Americans to be on guard against what it called Nancy Pelosis dopey liberalism. Newsweek, December 25, 2006, p. 27
5. Rahm Emanuel, upon leaving his White House position: "Mr. President, I thought I was tough," Emanuel told Obama. "I want to thank you for being the toughest leader any country could ask for in the toughest times any president has ever faced."
Rahm: Thank you for being the toughest leader - On The Left
Often characterized as weak, elitist, out of touch, lacking in moral fiber, unpatriotic, unwilling to stand up for ourselves, and a general pox on the body politic the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease. Eric Alterman, Why Were Liberals.
2. Here's the reason liberal has become a dirty word. Because Communists, fellow-travelers, pro-terrorists, terrorist sympathizers have hijacked the word liberal and because organs like the New York Times have abetted them, using "liberal" to describe anti-American radicals and even totalitarian radicals like Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Michael Moore, the organizers of the anti-Iraq and pro-Saddam "peace" movement, and Katrina vanden Heuvel and the Nation. Why Liberalism Has A Bad Name
3. Dick Armey has written that the New Deal and the Great Society, on the one hand, and Soviet Russias five-year plans and Communist Chinas Great Leap Forward, on the other, were created by the same sort of person separated only by differences of power and nerve. Dick Armey, The Freedom Revolution: The New Republican House Majority Leader Tells Why Big Government Failed, Why Freedom Works, and How We Will Rebuild America
4. Newsweek warned Americans to be on guard against what it called Nancy Pelosis dopey liberalism. Newsweek, December 25, 2006, p. 27
5. Rahm Emanuel, upon leaving his White House position: "Mr. President, I thought I was tough," Emanuel told Obama. "I want to thank you for being the toughest leader any country could ask for in the toughest times any president has ever faced."
Rahm: Thank you for being the toughest leader - On The Left