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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-17-09 01:46 PM
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The West Wing: Why is Liberal such a bad word?
Edited on Tue Mar-17-09 01:47 PM by Clintonista2
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFp7WG9J-E
 
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Another gem from the West Wing that I discovered while browsing youtube.
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navarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-17-09 02:07 PM
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1. Shouldn't that be phrased...
"Who the fuck says liberal is a bad word?"
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-17-09 03:02 PM
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2. Rush started it.
Edited on Tue Mar-17-09 03:05 PM by YOY
Idiots repeated it. Scary mother fucking dittoheads.

Lesser idiots repeated it. They'd listen to anyone who was empassioned that they'd happen to be about to...including scary fucking dittoheads. Idiots like John Stossil fall in this category.

Regular folks repeated it. Since the lesser idiots have a little respect from regular folks...it flew.

It became ingrained.

Last time I was accused of being a liberal I said "You're goddamn right I am. I've been right for the past 8 years but shit if you wanna make me the bad guy I'll stick my foot up your ass."

Idiots and lesser idiots generally shit themselves when confronted with someone enfuriated to that point.
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Idir Donating Member (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-17-09 03:21 PM
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3. Classical liberalism, maybe?
Probably because the original meaning of liberal was more economically than socially free?
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vanbean Donating Member (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-17-09 03:41 PM
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4. Look it up in the dictionary. Then look up "conservative".
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