Liberal is a code word. When
someone uses the L-word in conversation, chances are 999 out of 1000
that they're using it as a code-word to mean, weak, effeminate,
misguided, powerless geek without morals. And it's equally likely that
they're talking about you when they say it, although the play book says
they should make it a question if it's directed at you at all.
"Are
you a liberal?" they might ask. Who could say yes, but if you're honest
you say that you have a heart and want your country to not take
shortcuts, and you're concerned about the environment, and education,
and think the government should stay away from our genitals, or telling
our families when it's okay to pull the plug on a loved one, but you
realize they've put you on the defensive before you've said anything.
So
on Saturday night at dinner, when one of our companions, a man who
considers himself a conservative, in the mold of Limbaugh, DeLay or
Hannity, a death penalty proponent who feels deeply for the parents of
Terri Schiavo, used the L-word in an argument, I said "Wait a minute,
that's a code-word that means, weak effeminate, etc." I told him if
he's going to talk about that, I'm going to expose him for what he is,
an emulator of loutish, idiotic talk show hosts who say they're
conservatives, but come on, they're not conservative, they're idiots
who got a gig that pays them for being idiotic. The stupider they are
the more they make. Competence in their work is incompetence everywhere
else!
It worked. [Scripting News]
2:24:20 PM 
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