| cerberus wrote on Wed, 24 September 2008 18:36 |
| RPhilbeck wrote on Wed, 24 September 2008 20:11 |
Any news outlet that doesn't pander to the liberal ideal can't be a legitimate source of information. 
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if critical thinking is a liberal ideal, then i guess so.
jeff dinces
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In fact critical thinking is part of the definition of the liberal ideal. The middle-brow undereducated assholes of this country, led like sheep to the slaughter by the Coughlins and Nixons and Roves and Reeds and Limbaughs and O'Reillys, steeped in their lily-white resentment of changing times, have denigrated a word denoting in fact quite a high human ideal. So, as always, Mr. Philbeck hoists himself on his own argument, lacking critical thinking and a liberal ideal. In other places and times, these thugs have been known as Good Germans.
liberal, adjective, noun.
adj. 1a. generous; having or giving freely.
Ex. a liberal donation. A liberal giver gives much. The bearers ... are persons to whom you cannot be too liberal (Dickens). Wisely liberal of his money for comfort and pleasure (John Ruskin).
(SYN) bountiful.
b. plentiful; abundant.
Ex. We put in a liberal supply of fuel for the winter.
(SYN) ample, large.
2a. tolerant; not narrow in one's ideas and views; broad-minded.
Ex. a liberal thinker, liberal theology.
b. not strict; not rigorous.
Ex. a liberal interpretation of a rule.
3. favoring progress and reforms.
Ex. a liberal political program.
4. giving the general thought; not a word-for-word rendering; broad and sympathetic as opposed to literal and pedantic.
Ex. a liberal translation.
5. of or having to do with the liberal arts or a liberal education.
6. (Obsolete.)
a. free from restraint; free in speech or action.
b. licentious.
noun a person favorable to progress and reforms.
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