How's that talking point on the ''professional left'' holding up?

[yurbud]

Somebody posted that in a reply to one of my other threads, and I can't believe people are still peddling that crap.

The GOP works synergistically with right wing media, but the White House and whoever is spreading these talking points seems to think it's smart to shit on the emerging progressive media rather than work with it.

How are you going to get your message out if you don't have the media and you don't even have the enthusiasm of your base?

Do you buy this meme that the ''professional left'' is expressing sentiments vastly different from what the Democratic base is thinking and feeling on their own.

I would also be curious to hear who counts as this ''professional left.'' Is it anyone to the left of Fox News and gets paid to write or appear on TV? Anyone who speaks on behalf of an advocacy group? Who on the left can speak with a national megaphone and have the respect of the White House and Democratic leadership?

The bottom line is, does the ''professional left'' more or less reflect what Democratic voters feel or are they way out of line?

[Vincardog]

1. The 'professional left' is just their way of weaseling out of attacking everyone to the left of

Attila the Hun

[EFerrari]

Atti? Who is that? I first read it as Atila!

:rofl:

[DJ13]

2. "See Republicans? You can trust us, we dont like the left either."

[yurbud]

3. yeah, that'll work. Though it might work with the Wall St. scum they are courting.

[scheming daemons]

4. Still as true as the day Gibbs first used the term....

FDL, Glen Greenwald... etc... their aim is to kneecap the President in the name of ideological "purity" tests.

[SidDithers]

5. Don't forget David Michael Green...

whose hyperbolic ramblings we get to see posted here every week.

Sid

[scheming daemons]

7. Yep.... him too....

[yurbud]

13. in other words, he hurt the DLC's corrupt feelings.

[SidDithers]

14. He called the President "the little prick"...

You think that's acceptable criticism from the left?

Sid

[yurbud]

18. it depends on the context

[SidDithers]

19. In what context is it OK to call the President "the little prick"?...nt

Sid

[yurbud]

20. He works for us, not vice versa

[SidDithers]

21. Huh?...

That's the context that makes it acceptable to call someone "the little prick"? That they work for you?

:shrug:

Sid

[yurbud]

23. as insults go, that's pretty mild

[EFerrari]

9. How can Greenwald "kneecap" the President? Sounds pretty violent!

That's funny, as is labeling anyone with a consistent set of progressive values "ideologues". Funny and sad at the same time.

[yurbud]

12. nope--it's posters here still using it, along with the attitude of ''vote for us because we're

not as bad as the alternative.''

[xchrom]

6. It's not working well - nor should it. Nt

[KittyWampus]

8. Hilarious. YOU are the one stirring things up. Always looking for another outrage session.

Never accomplishing anything.

[Dogmudgeon]

10. Other: It's the thin-skinned and divisive who keep it alive

Robert Gibbs put his foot in his mouth, and his next course was the All-You-Can-Eat Fried Crow.

And that was that.

We have an election to win.

--d!

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. You really think he wouldn't have said it if Rahm hadn't told him to?

it was a trial balloon floated by the administration because they don't have a clue what democrats outside their DLC circle really think.

[GreenArrow]

24. I disagree.

I believe they do have a clue what Democrats outside their circle really think. They simply don't care, or are outright contemptuous.

[MikeW]

15. when I heard the term

I though of "uber liberals" - which despite what some people claim, is not how the majority of Americans across the
country identify themselves as.

[yurbud]

17. which pundits or political commentators do fairly represent your views.

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. There is no such thing as 'uber liberals' -

that is a RW meme meant to subtly associate liberalism with German fascism, on the same line as equating National Socialism with Socialism.

So OF COURSE the majority of Americans don't identify themselves as such - NOBODY does, only their enemies use that label.

[Skittles]

16. the professional left = THINKING DEMOCRATS

the others are SHEEP

[m00nbeam]

22. exactly

[LWolf]

25. Exactly. nt