My level of disgust would be high even without the inherent transparency-based hypocrisy of conservatives. But seriously. People who claim that both sides are equally reprehensible: what is the liberal counter-weight to this kind of ridiculous invasion of privacy and indefensible attack?
"Just to clear things up for the extreme right-wingers, here’s the difference between Bill Maher and Rush Limbaugh: the people who watch Bill Maher know he’s an asshole."
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Jimmy Kimmel
True story.
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“I wanted to respond to you as a liberal. Because, although I think you’ve made yourself clear and I think I understand you, you don’t seem to understand me at all. I hope you will read this and understand me better, and maybe understand the Occupy Wall Street movement better.”
It does seem like every time I hear someone oppose the Occupy movement, they unintentionally (or sometimes intentionally) misrepresent what the movement is fundamentally about. We need more honest conversation in this country. Please.
Jon Stewart Blasts Fox News For Playing The Victim Card Through Nonstop Liberal-Bashing | Mediaite
This is completely AWESOME! (via: brooklynmutt)
“That is some of the most free-range, organically-grown, disingenuous, ideologically marinated un-self-awareness I’ve ever seen in the wild.”
Jon at his best.
"See the game? (According to Chris Wallace at Fox News,) I make fun of conservatives or Republicans because I’m a liberal, partisan ideologue; I make fun of liberals and Democrats because I want — as part of my brilliant yet cynical strategy — to maintain enough credibility to continue to make fun of conservatives and Republicans.
And that narrative of conservative victimization is the true genius of what Fox News has accomplished: any editorial judgment in news, or schools, or movies that doesn’t favor the conservative view is elitism and is evidence of liberal bias. Whereas any editorial judgment that favors the conservative view is evidence, merely, of fairness — and done to protect them from liberal bias.
And if you criticize Fox for this game, guess what that’s evidence of? How right they are about how persecuted (conservatives are). It is airtighter than an otter’s anus."
And that narrative of conservative victimization is the true genius of what Fox News has accomplished: any editorial judgment in news, or schools, or movies that doesn’t favor the conservative view is elitism and is evidence of liberal bias. Whereas any editorial judgment that favors the conservative view is evidence, merely, of fairness — and done to protect them from liberal bias.
And if you criticize Fox for this game, guess what that’s evidence of? How right they are about how persecuted (conservatives are). It is airtighter than an otter’s anus."
— JON STEWART, calling out Fox “News,” on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
FUCK YEAH.
If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” - JFK, Acceptance of the New York Liberal Party nomination (14 September 1960) (source)
I don’t think I’m a democrat, but I’m definitely a liberal. Or at least I try to be.
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