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57. "Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours"
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  -"PROFESSIONAL LEFT" is a Public Relations scam - a war of words - a new nomenclature grahamhgreen  Aug-12-10 11:29 PM   #0 
  - K&R  leftstreet   Aug-12-10 11:31 PM   #1 
  - K&R  Nite Owl   Aug-12-10 11:33 PM   #2 
  - I think you just peeled the onion back another layer, grahamhgreen...  Robeson   Aug-12-10 11:35 PM   #3 
  - Just think for a minute how many really are on the "Professional Right"  Electric Monk   Aug-12-10 11:53 PM   #9 
     - Indeed. It would seem THAT should be a clear focus of attack.  Robeson   Aug-12-10 11:57 PM   #10 
  - Oh, I'll be watching this to be kicked tomorrow.  Gold Metal Flake   Aug-12-10 11:38 PM   #4 
  - I think you are right  KT2000   Aug-12-10 11:40 PM   #5 
  - who is this working on?  ibegurpard   Aug-12-10 11:41 PM   #6 
  - It's just the thing to appeal to authoritarian followers  EFerrari   Aug-12-10 11:46 PM   #7 
  - I bet you that the administration never deploys...  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-12-10 11:52 PM   #8 
  - It's already been planted to be picked up by the noise machine.  EFerrari   Aug-13-10 12:16 AM   #17 
  - Then if the "professional leftists" refrain from hyperbolic horseshit...  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 04:13 AM   #18 
     - Wjo is the "Pro Left"? The 70% of Americans that wanted a public option? nt  grahamhgreen   Aug-13-10 08:53 AM   #19 
     - wtf?  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 09:10 AM   #20 
        - Oops - "Who is the pro-left" Democracy, by definition  grahamhgreen   Aug-13-10 01:47 PM   #24 
        - Silly question that has nothing whatever to do with Gibbs comment. n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 02:03 PM   #29 
           - What kind of health care should we be working towards?  grahamhgreen   Aug-13-10 04:35 PM   #40 
              - I'm all for single payer, but unless you've got...  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 04:48 PM   #41 
        - Yet that is the excuse given and not just for failure but for even making the attempt  TheKentuckian   Aug-13-10 09:23 PM   #44 
        - Yep, Don Quixote for President!!! n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 10:58 PM   #51 
           - Sure beats President Fredo Corleone  TheKentuckian   Aug-14-10 08:34 AM   #66 
              - Good thing we're not reduced to such silly dichotomies. n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-14-10 01:58 PM   #72 
        - strange, I thought winning the election was just another popularity contest  KakistocracyHater   Aug-13-10 10:09 PM   #50 
           - Not you, the US Senate. n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 10:59 PM   #52 
     - " hyperbolic horseshit"?  Poboy   Aug-13-10 01:50 PM   #26 
     - Not even close. n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 02:01 PM   #27 
     - LOL. Funny! Just like if Obama refrains from socialist activity the teabaggers will love him!  EFerrari   Aug-13-10 02:05 PM   #30 
        - Lame sidestep, but telling equivocation. n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 02:42 PM   #31 
           - I usually try not to step in cr@p. n/t  EFerrari   Aug-13-10 03:12 PM   #33 
              - Good thing yer not President, cuz...  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 03:27 PM   #34 
                 - But why seek it out?  Forkboy   Aug-13-10 09:34 PM   #47 
                    - Antiseptic politics ... in America....  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 11:06 PM   #54 
                       - Not antiseptic, dumb and self deafeating.  Forkboy   Aug-13-10 11:24 PM   #55 
                          - Yep, as I said below.  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 11:36 PM   #59 
  - Well, they've seen how politically inept it is.....  Forkboy   Aug-13-10 09:33 PM   #46 
     - As a recurrent meme, certainly, but some push back was waaaay overdue. n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 11:04 PM   #53 
        - Yeah, that's why the left did so.  Forkboy   Aug-13-10 11:25 PM   #56 
           - T'aint bean bag.  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-13-10 11:36 PM   #58 
              - Well, tell that to all those upset by a cartoon before bitching at those upset at Gibbs.  Forkboy   Aug-13-10 11:52 PM   #60 
                 - If we didn't enjoy the sport of it, we wouldn't be here...  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-14-10 12:00 AM   #61 
                    - Nope.  Forkboy   Aug-14-10 12:12 AM   #63 
                    - It's not a "sport" buddy.  PassingFair   Aug-14-10 12:13 AM   #64 
                       - Are you a member of Congress? n/t  yowzayowzayowza   Aug-14-10 12:25 AM   #65 
  - I keep seeing the argument here that Gibbs didn't mean 'us,' but the left wing media  laughingliberal   Aug-12-10 11:59 PM   #11 
  - No, it is to make Obama's administration look more centrist.  alfredo   Aug-13-10 12:05 AM   #12 
  - It does both, though. Very efficiently. n/t  EFerrari   Aug-13-10 12:15 AM   #16 
  - We might not like what was said, but politically it was  alfredo   Aug-13-10 09:37 AM   #22 
     - It's short-term smart only, though. Because it re-enforces all the RW bs  EFerrari   Aug-13-10 01:49 PM   #25 
     - They won't think any worse of us. It really doesn't matter what they think.  alfredo   Aug-13-10 04:19 PM   #36 
     - It's not even short term smart.  Forkboy   Aug-13-10 09:39 PM   #49 
     - It is not a win to discredit our best policies nor to equate Virginia Foxx with Barbara Lee  TheKentuckian   Aug-13-10 09:32 PM   #45 
     - It makes it harder for the reps to claim that Obama is catering to the left.  alfredo   Aug-14-10 08:56 AM   #68 
        - Who the fuck cares? The Republican ideology has utterly failed they should be in the corner  TheKentuckian   Aug-14-10 10:41 AM   #69 
           - Do you know many who identify with being a radical. I always saw myself  alfredo   Aug-14-10 10:55 AM   #70 
              - You are off on a tangent the subthread was about not cowering like chumps playing GOP  TheKentuckian   Aug-14-10 12:46 PM   #71 
                 - We have to grab the center or we will lose. That's reality  alfredo   Aug-14-10 03:31 PM   #73 
                    - I'm not a leftier than thou person. That is not my point at all  TheKentuckian   Aug-14-10 03:56 PM   #74 
                       - I recognize that the Dems is a very diverse party. At this time the right  alfredo   Aug-14-10 05:56 PM   #76 
                          - Alfredo, if you will not stand up for what you believe then who will?  TheKentuckian   Aug-14-10 06:29 PM   #77 
                             - I pick my fights. My fight is against corporate power and  alfredo   Aug-14-10 07:26 PM   #81 
                                - and Obama sucks Donkey Kong ass in both area. I'm not calling you names we are having a little  TheKentuckian   Aug-14-10 09:52 PM   #82 
                                   - I'm responsible for my reaction. Politics is real nasty. I don't  alfredo   Aug-14-10 10:38 PM   #83 
     - Politically is was stupid as Hell.  Forkboy   Aug-13-10 09:38 PM   #48 
        - they have calculated that the pl will still vote for them  boston bean   Aug-14-10 08:39 AM   #67 
  - It's not bringing the independents back though  Hydra   Aug-13-10 04:34 PM   #39 
  - Well, at least we are not the amateurish left. (Like the tea party)  Kablooie   Aug-13-10 12:09 AM   #13 
  - The tea party are neither amateurish, nor the left.  readmoreoften   Aug-13-10 12:12 AM   #15 
  - Total cooked-up PR fodder. Notice how we are the "professional" during economic crises.  readmoreoften   Aug-13-10 12:11 AM   #14 
  - much like the term ' liberal media'..which people believe as well..nt  xiamiam   Aug-13-10 09:13 AM   #21 
  - k&r.  Robeson   Aug-13-10 12:18 PM   #23 
  - The "old" nomenclature was "Red Baiting". Same song, different singer.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Aug-13-10 02:03 PM   #28 
  - The message is: "Ignore "Professional Left" ON MEDIA" and assert a "Silent Majority" 4 Admin policy  Land Shark   Aug-13-10 02:43 PM   #32 
  - Exactly. nt  grahamhgreen   Aug-13-10 04:30 PM   #38 
  - It's typical Neo-Liberal ideological doctrine used to stifle the will of the people.  Odin2005   Aug-13-10 04:00 PM   #35 
  - A nomenclature that has the stink of DLC all over it.  Individualist   Aug-13-10 04:22 PM   #37 
  - So Gibbs is working to divide the left? Great for the party. Whose side is he on then?  mod mom   Aug-13-10 04:53 PM   #42 
  - Easy to answer  grahamhgreen   Aug-13-10 09:11 PM   #43 
  - Pointing out an existing division is not creating the division.  boppers   Aug-14-10 06:38 PM   #78 
  - "Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours"  Stinky The Clown   Aug-13-10 11:32 PM   #57 
  - Really? Is this a joke?  Safetykitten   Aug-14-10 12:01 AM   #62 
  - gibbs outted himself as a total freeper.  meow mix   Aug-14-10 04:00 PM   #75 
  - Yep-Gibbs totally sounds like a freeper.  earth mom   Aug-14-10 06:48 PM   #80 
  - The divide is alive and well here on DU and no doubt the powers that be love it.  earth mom   Aug-14-10 06:45 PM   #79 
  - I think it's more directed at Corporate America, honestly.  Marr   Aug-14-10 10:46 PM   #84 
 

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