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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Jesus Christ!
First, you guys really need to learn to distinguish between Democrats and liberals, and between liberals and progressives.
Your comparisons are about as meaningful as saying that David Duke, Grover Norquist, Pat Robertson, or Newt Gingrich speak for Lincoln Chafee (or for Bilmore) -- because they are all on the "right" side of the aisle.
As to your quotes -- Gere is a freakin' Buddhist, and his quote (which did seem to be snipped from a larger discussion) is an entirely natural response in the context of his religious tradition.
If you don't like it, I'll match your Gere with Pat Robertson, and note that, unlike Robertson, Gere has never been a "serious" contender for his parties' Presidential nomination and has never participated in a nationally televised debate of primary candidates.
Shirely McClaine believes in ghosts and past lives. She is a bona fide nut case, and not representative of any type of mainstream liberal thought. (Don't you keep telling us that the Hollywood liberal elite is not "mainstream"?)
Alice Walker writes for the m*therf*cking Village Voice, for God's sakes. That means she's almost certainly well past liberal, and back in the day was likely some kind of socialist or communist.
Do Regnery Press or Richard Scaife's journals speak for the Republican Party?
In sum -- those quotes aren't properly representative of either "liberal" or, even less, so "Democratic" thought. Anyone on this Board who truly believes otherwise -- as opposed to those just being tools -- are truly profoundly ignorant.
S_A_M
P.S. My condolences, Hank.
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What a non sequitur of a response. This argument is taking place in the context of Karl Rove's remarks and whether they are accurate. He stated
"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."
Now this board has been presented with four quotes from widlely known liberals expressing exactly the sentiments Karl Rove attributed. Note that he didn't attribute them to "Democrats." So what about what Rove said is inaccurate? The fact that not every single liberal (at least for some limited time) didn't agree with these sentiments?
But I'm willing to take you up on your offer. Please match my Gere with a Pat Robertson quote expresing the need for love for terrorists. (This isn't an invitation to find stupid quotes from Robertson, of which there are many, because the conservatives on this board aren't denying the truth that Pat Robertson is a tremondous ass.) But if you can't find the quote you promised, why don't you just go back to the Infirm boards where you can just delete the posts that demonstrate how full of shit you are.
P.S. Just because the Hollywood elite aren't mainstream doesn't mean that they do not represent mainstream liberal thought. You do recall that the Democrats last the past Presidential election, are minorities in Congress, hold less governorships, etc.?
