You Might be a Leftist If . . ...... (a little humor)


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October 8, 2003, 07:13 AM
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10210

You Might be a Leftist If . . .

By Marc Levin
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 8, 2003


-You believe John Ashcroft poses a greater danger to America than Osama bin Laden

-You think President Bush lied to the nation but his predecessor did not.

-You believe President Bush is too dumb to be President and Arnold Schwarzenegger is too dumb to be Governor of California, but the Dixie Chicks, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand, Eddie Vedder and Jeanine Garofalo are qualified to discourse at length on foreign policy.

-You believe all conservatives are racist, but do not think minorities can ever succeed without Affirmative Action.

-You can't decide which is worse: the Patriot Act or the Patriot Missile.

-You believe Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, and Yasser Arafat were fairly and democratically elected, but President Bush was not.

-You root for prisoners when they escape from our oppressive prisons, but oppose allowing poor children to escape from failing public schools.

-You support every kind of "diversity" on campus, except political orientation.

-You support banning the smoking of tobacco and legalizing marijuana.

-You are enraged by the so-called mistreatment of Muslim prisoners (who have gained weight while dining on their specially prepared Koran-approved meals) at Guantanamo Bay, but believe the world should have stood idly by while Saddam Hussein filled mass graves.

-You have found where the right to an abortion is written in the Constitution but cannot find where the Constitution provides for a right to keep and bear arms.

-You support campus speech codes that ban pick-up lines and amorous gazes, but never spoke out against President Clinton's physical sexual harassment in the White House.

-You applauded Jimmy Carter for talking about human rights in foreign policy but opposed George W. Bush for doing something about human rights.

-You believe that trial lawyers taking 33 to 40 percent of a plaintiff's recovery in lawsuits is just about right, but the federal government taking this amount of our income in taxes is not nearly enough.

-You believe the former Governor of a New England state with 608,827 people is more than adequately experienced to be President in 2004, but the Governor of a Southwestern state with 21,325,018 people was completely unprepared in 2000.

-You agree with Toni Morrison that President Clinton was "the first black President," but didn't criticize Al Sharpton for recently labeling President Bush a "gang leader."

-You believe we could get more truth out of the Pentagon if only Don Rumsfeld were replaced by Mohammed Al-Sahhaf.

-You believe evangelical Christians are destroying America but don't feel threatened by the radical Wahabbi sect of Islam.

-When it comes to violent crime, you believe in hating the crime but loving the criminal.

-You support unlimited appeals for convicted criminals, but believe it is undemocratic for Californians to reverse their earlier mistake of electing Gray Davis.

-You believe U.S. exports of genetically modified foods pose a greater threat to African nations than corrupt dictators like Zimbabwe's Mugabe.

-You believe welfare is a fundamental human right and workfare is a human rights violation.

-You believe religion is a scourge on our society, but becoming one with Mother Nature by merging with the universal consciousness and harmonizing with lunar reverberations will save us.

-You believe President Bush is an environmental criminal for poisoning the water with arsenic, but have never complained about Saddam Hussein's devastating Iraq and Kuwait's environment by setting intentional oil well fires and committing genocide against the Marsh Arabs by draining their wetlands.

-Your car sports the bumper sticker saying that "it will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the military has to hold bake sales," but oppose allowing the U.S. military to volunteer recruitment tables on college campuses because of their "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

If the above has successfully profiled you, congratulations! You have won a one-way ticket to Paris aboard the massive cruise ship, "The U.S.S.R. Michael Moore." Your ticket will be held at the nearest Dennis Kucinich for President rally. Matricular consular ID cards issued by foreign governments will be gladly accepted as identification.

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TallPine
October 8, 2003, 08:33 AM
Humor .... ?

Pitiful is more like it - that is what they actually think, and can't see any inconsistency with it.

Tamara
October 8, 2003, 09:30 AM
I swear, this mindless pom-pom waving will be the death of us all.


Yaaaaaaaayyyy for my team!

Smoke
October 8, 2003, 09:48 AM
Now that WAS funny!:D

Sad that they beleive it.:banghead:

cuchulainn
October 8, 2003, 09:53 AM
Tamara,

I suppose it is possible to wave pom-poms, but according to my dictionary (Random House College, 1975 edition):

Pom-pom: (pom' pom) n, an automatic antiaircraft cannon.

Pom-pon: (pom' pon) n, 1. An ornamental tuft or ball, as of feathers or wool. 2. Hort. A form of small globe-shaped flower head that characterizes a class or type of various flowering plants, esp. chrysanthemums and dahlias.

;)

atk
October 8, 2003, 11:38 AM
cuchulainn,

What? You don't believe that THR's own Tamara would be waving Pom-Poms?

cuchulainn
October 8, 2003, 11:44 AM
Oh, I believe it ... with Ride of the Valkyrie as a soundtrack.

Joe Demko
October 8, 2003, 11:47 AM
Perhaps this was funny the first 600-700 times variants of it were posted. Or maybe it is that right-wingers are on about the same developmental level as my 3-year old. She can watch the same Kipper and Wiggles videos over and over and over with no dimunition of enjoyment.

By the way, cuchulainn, check

this thread (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=82967&highlight=pompom#post82967) regarding pom-poms and pom-pons.

Henry Bowman
October 8, 2003, 11:51 AM
Coo-Hoo, you never cease to amaze me. Course, neither does Tamara! ;)

DorGunR
October 8, 2003, 11:53 AM
2dogs
Thanks for posting that.....I saved it on my hard drive for furture use.
It's sad that there is so much truth in what you posted.:mad: :banghead:

jsalcedo
October 8, 2003, 12:10 PM
Some of the comparisons were a little weak. The author should have stopped about halfway.

I read a lot and have never seen a "you may be a leftist" list.

Joe Demko
October 8, 2003, 12:50 PM
This list and variations of it turn up primarily as "You may be a Democrat..."

Selfdfenz
October 8, 2003, 01:10 PM
Then it should have been more appropriately entitled "You may be a Democrat and/or a leftist if..."

?

S-

Joe Demko
October 8, 2003, 01:14 PM
Whatever title it goes by, it was only weakly funny to start, now it is tired too.

cordex
October 8, 2003, 01:19 PM
Hrm.
I may be a leftist, I guess. I found one or two that I agree with.
You believe John Ashcroft poses a greater danger to America than Osama bin Laden
Tell me ... who should I fear more ... someone who is a position of political power, who advocates drastically increasing governmental power and has a good chance of getting what he wants thereby making life more difficult for the rest of the time that I spend in America, or a cave-dwelling fanatic with a failing liver who may or may not already be dead?
So which is a greater threat to me right now?
Ossama is running out of options and time. His power is fading fast.
Not so with Ashcroft.
You can't decide which is worse: the Patriot Act or the Patriot Missile.
Oh, I know which is worse. The Patriot Act, of course.

Kinsman
October 8, 2003, 01:28 PM
Gotta agree there, Cordex.
I can't see how Ashcroft is anything buyt a danger to Liberty, the way he is seemingly willing to brush aside the 4th amendment.

Standing Wolf
October 8, 2003, 05:00 PM
Clever, definitely clever.

rock jock
October 8, 2003, 05:07 PM
Good one.

Oh, and I like cheering for my team.......also my country, my state, my heritage.

bountyhunter
October 8, 2003, 05:46 PM
Says something about where our country has progressed to that lists like the one above are cheered with good humor, and answering some of the erroneous points generally earns a flood of PM's and threatining notes from the moderators.

FWIW, this humble speaker of the truth screamed "LIAR!" just as loudly when Clinton did it as when Bush did it. But, to keep things in perspective, I honestly didn't care whether he was doing a fat intern and I didn't really care if he lied about his other affairs because IMO, that has nothing to do with the job of president. I got very alarmed when it became clear that:

1) GWB has had a war with Iraq in mind for a VERY long time.

2) He is under the delusion it is both legal and appropriate for the leader of the USA to start wars on the flimsiest pretext and thumb his nose at the world in the process.

3) He is now rattling his saber at Syria so that he can have a country to blame for the ongoing violence in Iraq as well as have a diversion to direct attention away from all the domestic problems.

I honestly don't care what party he belongs to, even if it was the halloween party. I would still be just as scared of him.

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