DeoDuce has a great quiz up at The Daily Spork: a list of anti-American quotes, and all you have to do is determine al Qaeda or the left? So far, none of her commenters has gotten more than 6 of the 10 correct... can you do better?
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The quiz is just window dressing for the implication that the Left is anti-American and synonymous with terrorists and terrorism.
That's fine, though. Extreme points of view such as that are rarely representative of reality.
Wow, quick to judge there, Mark!
And you didn't even take a guess!
I'm disappointed. Anyhow, the Leftist quotes I obtained are from various sources that are quite popluar within the Democratic party (no, not bin Laden but I have quotes from him up there, too.)
DD: Oh don't be coy. You've never been anything but disappointed with what I've said here on MW's blog.
And please... be honest about this quiz. It's quite popular among talking heads on the Right to spin yarns equating the Left and anti-American terrorists/terrorism. Rush Limbaugh does it all the time. Do you agree with him on the subject?
Spinning yarns? It's not my fault that people can't tell if it's a well-known liberal, or Osama bin Laden.
Perhaps the Democratic Party should look a little more closely at some of its proclamations.
I'd have to listen to Rush to form my own opinion on his stance and what he says. I personally don't listen to him.
DD: It may not be your fault, but I bet you wouldn't make an effort to draw clear distinctions between terrorists and the Left... because it only serves your purposes to make the Left and terrorists seem identical.
Mark: I'd be interested to see if you could do something similar with right-wing quotes and terrorist quotes. The only similar-sounding things I can think of is when both reference "God".
MW: Why would I want to infer a connection between Rightists and terrorists? Unlike DD (and perhaps you) I don't like equating my fellow Americans with Islamic terrorists.
MW..there was a Little Green Footballs or Little Green Faschists thing going on a while ago.
So what exactly do you think that any of this proves? So if AQ says puppies are cute, we all have to disavow puppies? There are probably several quotes dealing with gays, the role of women, and religion and state.
I think it was John Cole who said that it must be a slow news day when people are reprinting quotes from Free Republic or DU.