Why Are Liberals Afraid Of The Word Liberal?
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Defending Adam Carolla: The Young Turks Rebutted!
Ana Kasparian from The Young Turks recently went after comedian and radio host Adam Carolla for saying that liberals have taken over the word conservative. Liberals have taken over the word...
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An employee of the Council of Europe holds a placard which read "I am Charlie" and a pen, during a minute of silence in front of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, January 9, 2015, two days after gunmen stormed weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The two main suspects in the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo killings were sighted on Friday in the northern French town of Dammartin-en-Goele where at least one person had been taken hostage, a police source said.
Liberals are hypocrites and cowards, some conservatives (and Bill Maher) are saying, for (among other things) claiming to be defenders of the freedom to engage in offensive speech in light of the Islamic extremist attack on Charlie Hebdo while continually seeking to censor speech they consider offensive.
Liberals have exalted Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French newspaper, after the attack at the paper's headquarters that left 12 dead. "Je Suis Charlie," (French for "I am Charlie") was a common refrain and hashtag from many quarters.
Even as liberal news outlets argued for the freedom of speech, they ironically continued to self-censor Charlie Hebdo. Many decided not to show audiences the images that led radical Muslims to kill those who offended them. When some of those outlets claimed the decision was done out of respect for religion, conservatives were quick to point out the double standard.
After Associated Press said it did not want to publish "deliberately provocative images," Washington Examiner's Timothy Carney pointed outthat the AP website showed and sold copies of "Piss Christ," an artwork that was deliberately designed to provoke Christians. (It has since been removed.)
After the executive editor of The New York Times said his paper did not run the cartoons due to its policy of not publishing images that "gratuitously offend," several conservatives pointed out that the policy did not seem to apply to Christians or Jews.
When the New York Daily news published a Charlie Hebdo cartoon, it pixilated out the offensive image of Mohammed, but left the offensive image of a Jewish rabbi in place.
So, it must not be out of a deference to religious sensibilities in general that the media is not publishing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. The only explanation for this hypocrisy, Mollie Hemingway argued for The Federalist, is that the media is comprised of cowards.
"The story in the self-censorship is that global news organizations won't publish these cartoons out of fear," she wrote. "We should not be told the self-censoring is a matter of principle when it's a matter of abject and degrading fear."
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Story Highlights Conservatives remain largest ideological group, at 38% Liberals up one point to 24%, the highest yet Conservative-liberal gap now smallest in Gallup trends
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Conservatives continued to outnumber moderates and liberals in the U.S. population in 2014, as they have since 2009. However, their 14-percentage-point edge over liberals last year, 38% vs. 24%, is the smallest in Gallup's trends since 1992. The percentage of U.S. adults identifying themselves as politically conservative in 2014 was unchanged from 2013, as was the percentage of moderates, at 34%, while the percentage considering themselves liberal rose a percentage point for the third straight year.
When Gallup initiated this measure of self-identified political ideology in 1992, the largest group of Americans called themselves moderate, while slightly more than one-third identified as conservative and fewer than one in five as liberal. The conservative-liberal gap at that time was 19 points, and by 1996 it had widened to 22 points, its highest across the trend. Since then, the liberal percentage has swelled and the percentage of moderates has shrunk from 40% to 34%.
These results are based on combined data from Gallup's standalone surveys of U.S. adults, totaling between 16,000 and 45,000 interviews for each year.
Political Polarization Inched Further Ahead in 2014
The one-point uptick in the percentage liberal in 2014 stems from one-point increases in liberal self-identification among both independents and Democrats. The small percentage of Republicans identifying as liberals stayed the same. Longer term, since 2000, all of the rise in liberalism on this measure is owing to Democrats.
At the same time, Republicans' strong tendency to identify with the conservative moniker stayed the same in 2014 at 70%, just under the 73% high point reached in 2012. The percentage of Republicans who consider themselves conservative remains slightly higher today than it was through the mid-2000s,and the pattern is nearly the same with independents. At the same time, fewer Democrats call themselves conservative compared with a decade ago.
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U.S. Liberals at Record 24%, but Still Trail Conservatives
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2014 heat: what does it all mean?
Labor Party faces a major blow, set to lose power in its last state of South Australia after the Liberals claim victory in Tasmania. Nine News.
The South Australian Liberal Party is pinning last-minute hopes on a record number of pre-poll and postal votes to scrape into government, but Labor believes it can still win the support of independents to retain power in the state.
Voters will have to wait days for Saturday's election to be decided, but the most likely prospect is a minority government relying on two independents.
The government and the opposition in Canberra are watching the wash-up with keen interest. If Labor holds on to government in the state after the Liberal Party swept to power in Tasmania at the weekend, South Australia would have denied the conservative parties a clean sweep across the federal and state landscapes.
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Liberals pin hopes on postal votes for the South Australian election