On Liberal Bias — Not Just Stephen Colbert Being Funny Anymore

[Stingo]

We all know that conservatives see liberal bias in everything, and Bernard Goldberg has made a career out of spouting off about this or that liberal bias. But who knew he would echo Stephen Colbert, who famously said, humorously, that “reality has a well-known liberal bias?” Goldberg’s claim, though, is about the Dictionary.

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2009/03/20/on-liberal-bias-not-just-colbert-being-funny-anymore/

[madmom]

1. If liberals wrote the dictionary, I'm sure we could come up

with a WAY better definition of the word republican, just to name one.

[Stingo]

2. Would it relate to the Santorum def?

[DCKit]

3. Mmmmm. Frothy. n/t

[Stingo]

4. Cheap shot

though full of good old fashioned truthiness

[Dr.Phool]

5. Every time I type that word, "Santorum",

Spell check wants to change it to "Sanitarium".

[Stingo]

6. Spellcheck evidently has a liberal bias

[Constance Craving]

7. I didn't know

That Noah Webster was a liberal . . . revisionist history is great!

[supernova]

8. Hell, the whole Enlightenment had a liberal bias

and we are an Enlightenment experiment that they left running.

So, :shrug:

[Stingo]

9. Of course our founders were liberal

The Republicans want to take us back to having Kings.

[TankLV]

14. And don't forget - the ORIGINAL Republican Party was VERY Liberal!!!

These repukes today should be FORCED to disassociate themselves from Lincoln and everything he stood for...

What I'd like to see reported more often is how the Democratic and Repuke parties came to "switch"...

[Stingo]

15. Yeah

they ditched that stance long, long ago.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Goldberg reveals his motivation for claiming the Dictionary is liberal

"Nevertheless, Goldberg, the self-appointed authority, insisted, “it simply means a black person.” Then, like Mason, he used it to attack blacks whom he euphemistically referred to as a group who “sees itself as victims and derives its power from victims. If you’re in that group, this is a good thing.” Next, Goldberg took a swipe at those Jews who might disagree with him. “White liberals hear that word and they go nuts, including Jewish white liberals.”

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"Goldberg’s answer? “Forgive my arrogance. The dictionary is written by some liberal person.”

I don't believe Goldberg sees himself as a victim, but his argument is weak, so he's cynically trying to draw power by claiming that his argument is a victim. If you can't argue with English, change the meaning or motivation behind the language.

In short, Goldberg practices what he criticizes blacks for doing.

[Stingo]

11. Of course he sees himself as a victim.

He's a Republican and always whining about liberal bias. The bias, as he sees it, is victimizing him.

[Uncle Joe]

12. I view his motivations as being more Machiavellian

than sincerely feeling like a victim, those are crocodile tears.

It's sort of like those oligarchs screaming class war in protest after having successfully waged class warfare against the poor and middle income class at least since Reagen's time, if not before.

[Stingo]

13. Makes him an average

Republican, eh?