Progressives Created a Cat in the Hat Culture

Does political correctness have a peak?  Is there a summit to absurdity?  A day barely goes by without some sort of bastardization of the language, or an assault on our institutions.  Many are flabbergasted at this Cat in the Hat culture that has turned common sense into a Dr. Seuss caricature. 

There is a glimmer of light peeking through the clouds.  A feminist icon has taken a stand on the definition of motherhood.  Here is an excerpt from Brietbart.com:  

Feminist commentator Germaine Greer has criticised Elton John for calling his partner David Furnish “mother” of their two sons. 

Speaking at the Hay Literary Festival, Greer accused the men of “deconstructing motherhood”, criticising them for the fact that Furnish was listed as mother on their children’s birth certificates.

 “Sometimes I think that really the problem is the concept of motherhood, which we can’t give any real structure to,” she said.

 “Sir Elton John and his ‘wife’ David Furnish have entered on the birth certificate of their two sons that David Furnish is the mother. I’m sorry. That will give you an idea of how the concept of motherhood has emptied out. It’s gone, it’s been deconstructed.”

The Express says the couple’s children were born with the help of IVF treatment and share the same surrogate mother, who John and Furnish claim they “love like a sister”.

  

Progressives created this mess.  They need to sweep up this nonsense and put everything back in its proper place.

Source:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/05/28/feminist-germaine-greer-attacks-elton-john-and-david-furnish-for-deconstructing-motherhood/

Obama's Minions Redefine War

If the Obama administration was as good at fighting wars as they are at bastardizing the English language, terrorism would be an afterthought.  I, like many other Americans, watched the president’s address.  The usual suspects fell all over themselves with praise for our decisive leader.  There was no parsing of words this time.  This commander-in-chief means business! 

Well, until the next day.  Secretary of State John F. Kerry and the rest of Obama’s minions must have consulted their progressive dictionary.  War apparently doesn’t mean what the rest of us think it is.  I thought ‘destroy and degrade’ meant annihilation of the enemy.  Had I access to a Progressive Dictionary, I would’ve noticed a bowl of punch and platter of cookies, along with Hallmark  greeting card next to the word.

I learned long ago not to trust progressives.  It should’ve been obvious to even low-information voters after the Benghazi debacle.  To insist that attack involved a video, no one has seen or heard of, is an insult to our intelligence.  It is a demonstration of the Democratic Party’s low opinion of the American people.

So, Sunday’s shows will be replete with questions of what did the president mean and the definition of words.  But there is no ambiguity of what a disastrous president, Barack Obama has been.

Source:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/13/obama-repeats-us-mission-on-defeating-islamic-state-but-doesnt-say-war/

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/11/world/meast/kerry-mideast-visit-isis/index.html

Progressives are a Gradual Disease

Maybe Pat Condell should take a gander at the U.S. media.  MSNBC would give some of these European "journalist" a run for their money.

H/T:  Whatbubbaknows

PC Crowd to Banish "I-Word" American Citizen is Next

When Progressives don’t like a word, they change the meaning of it. The latest victim of the English language is “illegal.” Apparently, there are a whole group of people who take umbrage at being defined as an “illegal,” particularly the kind who come from other countries. Here is the definition of illegal:

il·le·gal

adj.

1. Prohibited by law.
2. Prohibited by official rules: an illegal pass in football.
3. Unacceptable to or not performable by a computer: an illegal operation.

n.

1. forbidden by law; unlawful; illicit
2. unauthorized or prohibited by a code of official or accepted rules

n.

a person who has entered or attempted to enter a country illegally

So, if you are in the United States without permission, by definition you are here illegally. But the preferred word is “undocumented.”
F.A. Hayek wrote about the perversion of the language in his work, “The Road to Serfdom.”

FOREWARD TO THE 1956 AMERICAN PAPERBACK EDITION:

The fact that this book was originally written with only the British public in mind does not appear to have seriously affected its intelligibility for the American reader. But there is one point of phraseology which I ought to explain here to forestall any misunderstanding. I use throughout the term “liberal” in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by the muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that “liberal” has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control. I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensible term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.

He also wrote:

If one has not one’s self experienced this process, it is difficult to appreciate the magnitude of this change of the meaning of words, the confusion which it causes, and the barriers to any rational discussion which it creates. It has to be seen to be understood how, if one of two brothers embraces the new faith, after a short while he appears to speak a different language which makes any real communication between them impossible. And the confusion becomes worse because this change of meaning of the words describing political ideals is not a single event but a continuous process, a technique employed consciously or unconsciously to direct the people. Gradually, as this process continues, the whole language becomes despoiled, and words become empty shells deprived of any definite meaning, as capable of denoting one thing as its opposite and used solely for the emotional associations which still adhere to them.

After they banish “illegal” from the lexicon, let’s guess which words will be considered offensive by the PC crowd. Will it be American? How about citizen? Wait, how about putting the two together: American citizen. Now, that’s offensive.


Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/you-havent-even-thought-this-out-bill-oreilly-confronts-drop-the-i-word-spokesman-monica-novoa/

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/illegal