What Liberals Say.

Accuracy in Media has a web site “dedicated to defining liberals not by the accusations or distortions of conservatives, but rather by what liberals themselves have actually said. These quotations [collected by AIM] paint a picture of liberals and liberalism untainted by mainstream media spin."

Here’s a gem:

[Republicans have] transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic fratboys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb, and dangerous.

~ Garrison Keillor.^[1]

This is both ironic and sad. Keillor is a master storyteller, creative, and droll. He often deftly describes the human condition and illuminates our foibles with kindness and considerable insight. Yet, to read this is like turning over a rock and finding some oily, pulsating creature. In Keillor’s view conservatives are street fighters (Nazis, natch), hypocrites, juveniles, chameleons, misanthropes, cheats, exploiters and gullibles suspicious of secular institutions.

Now that’s a list of attributes that you work up at IHOP with a yellow pad and two hours to kill. Something you study on, hone, and polish. Let’s call this an example of the face of humanism, liberalism, and secularism beneath the mask. My hat tip is to an article about NPR’s firing of Juan Williams. Another example of the liberal mask.

Have the temerity to stray a millimeter over the boundary of the liberal-progressive-Marxist reservation and the tolerance for truth and opposing viewpoints evaporates into pettiness and full-bore retaliaton.

Notes
^[1] What Liberals Say. Accuracy in Media .

H/t: P. D’Souza commenting on “Fire Juan Williams Right Now! — Our Sneering Liberal Culture in a Nutshell.” By Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media, 10/22/10.