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February 6, 2008
What's in a Word?
One of the media's more subtle methods of shifting the political climate ever further to the left is explicitly defining anything to the right of its own moonbat ideology as "conservative," while avoiding the word "liberal." This reflects, and may be intended to impart, a view that liberalism is normal. Talking heads don't describe anything as liberal for the same reason you don't bother to mention that someone has a nose in the middle of his face; if the guy's nose is growing out of his forehead, then you might mention it.
NewsBusters reports that the CBS News crew got a little carried away with this tactic during last night's Super Tuesday coverage. Over two hours, they used the term "conservative" 44 times, while managing never to say "liberal." A partial transcript:
Katie Cupcake: …conservatives…
Jeff Greenfield: …social conservatives…
Scott Pelley: …conservative … conservatives … conservative … conservative…
Greenfield: …conservatives … most conservative … big conservative group…
Bob Schieffer: …conservative establishment, the very conservative establishment…
Cupcake: …deeply conservative … conservative voters … conservative judges…
Schieffer: …very conservative…
Cupcake: …conservatives…
Schieffer: …the very conservative Republicans…
Greenfield: …conservatives…
Cupcake: …conservatives … very conservative … conservatives … conservatives … conservative talk show hosts … conservative…
Maybe they should use "right-wing" instead. True, it's less subtle — but if they're going to repeat it with every breath, think of the syllables they would save.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 6, 2008 9:07 AM
Comments
yes, "right wing" - like in the European press. They'd call anyone to the right of Obama "right wing" and call anyone to the right of McCain "far right". Sarkozy is called "right wing" all the time - I'd call him a democrat. At the BBC "right wing" is an unsavory political stance and "left wing" is a term used only in the sport section to describe a position on the field in footy or rugby. "Biased bcc" had a good post on that a while back that I'm paraphrasing.
Posted by: forest at February 6, 2008 9:28 AM
The word "liberal" will go the way of the word "n*gger" soon. It will be hate speech to call a liberal a liberal. That's the way liberals play.
Posted by: Jimbo at February 6, 2008 10:27 AM
Since the Liberals insist on calling their party "the Democratic party", they should publicly announce that they are now officialy NO LONGER the DEMOCRAT party. They certainly are not loyal to the heritage of Thomas Jefferson, FDR, JFK, et al.
This way, REAL Democrats will not feel embarassed for voting against their party.
Posted by: KHarn at February 6, 2008 1:12 PM
You haven't seen left wing bias TV till you watch what we have to watch up here in Canada. And with the infamous CBC we have to pay for it. 1.3 Billion a year. That's right... with a B.
Here's a great place that exposes it daily.
www.proudtobecanadian.ca/blog
Posted by: Boots at February 6, 2008 9:09 PM
it sounds like you are ashamed of being called "conservative". Is that right?
Posted by: Anonymous at February 7, 2008 6:32 AM
