If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America. That we "blame America first." That we're suspicious of patriotism and always think our country's in the wrong. As conservative radio and TV personality Sean Hannity says, we liberals "train our children to criticize America, not celebrate it."ref: Franken, Al. Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. New York: Dutton, 2003. 24. Print.
They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America the way a four-year-old loves her mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a four-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well. We also want it to do good.
When liberals look back on history, we see things we're very proud of. And we also see some things, which might have seemed like good ideas at the time, but turned out to be mistakes. And some things we did, well, they were just bad. That doesn't keep us from loving our country—it's part of loving our country. It's called honesty. What do you think is more important to a loving relationship: honesty or lies?
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken is an American comedian, actor, politician, and writer. He is currently the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live.ref: Al Franken, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You may find the book in the embedded link right here contained within its title, Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right.
2 comments:
Al Franken fair and balanced? I think maybe I better stop reading here. Your little car has chugged around the bend this time. Not even worth it to say that your generalities of the right are just as bad as the ones you accuse the right of.
Sorry to disappoint you, CW Martin, but I made no generalities of any kind, nor did I make any accusations of any kind, in this blog entry as you have ascribed to me. All I have done here is to provide quotations along with proper attribution and embedded links to reference material.
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