One of the standard techiniques of "black PR" skills is the insidious redefinition of terms in order to create a distortion of the things or people who use the label.

Throughout the Bush years, foaming right wing mouths like Ann Coulter and Rush LImbaugh took up the cry to redefine the word "Liberal" from its core meanings, given above by Little Hawk, to some ridiculous epithet laden with the meanings of "Commie", "mooch", "tree hugger", "socialist pinko", "pushover" and "stupid bleeding-heart slob".

The word means none of these things, but Ann didn't mind; she needed a hate-label and she drummed up a huge mess of pottage and slapped it into her vitriolic books in order to make some dough by slandering people of different political philosophy.

That this was an un-American, anti-social, counter-productive course of action seems to have escaped her attention.



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