LOL Can you believe this? They actually called it "Democrat" presidential debate--instead of "Democratic". Is that supposed to be some sort of slight? How biased can a news channel get? Do they think people won't notice?
Intentional wordplay by the right - disassociating Democrats from democracy. And now the right's prime media mouthpiece aids in the effort. I am not surprised, but I sure am mad.
Individual members of the Democratic party are called Democrats, but a debate has more than one person. They are definitely slighting our candidates by calling the debate the Democrat Debate.
I guess they think it is smart. But it shows how dumb they are.
If they would look in the dictionary that would see that democrat is a noun so to put it with party to make it an adjective the correct word would be democratic.
The word republican is already an adjective as well as a noun so the word can be used with party as is.
A southern racist Democratic senator started railing against "Democrat leaders in Washington" in the 40's or so and that caught on as a slight of sorts. I researched it a while ago out of curiosity. I think as linguistic tricks go, it's pretty weak though.
...That if Democrats (and the Democratic Party) win the 2004 election, it's time to create "America's BBC" with a (modest) television license fee. Let Murdoch compete against that.
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