Great response to the false equivalency quotes from liberals

[cling2reality]

Cannot take credit for this eloquent explaination. But I agree with it completely and it is one of the best responses I have seen.
Feel free to use with right wing co-workers.


"I have no problem with metaphor. Frankly, I have no problem with Palin's crosshairs. I recognize that calling a lobbyist a K-street whore does not mean she is an actual whore.
I have no problem with football teams using a shotgun offense to throw bombs. It isn't literal.

But frankly, it is hard to find a metaphor in the right's rhetoric of late.

Are liberals metaphorical tyrants?
Are they metaphorically palling around with terrorists
Would they, metaphorically, intentionally lose a war to win an election?

That's 3 pretty serious Ts. Tyranny, terrorism, and traitors.

What's the metaphor in "Second Amendment Solutions?"
I guess if the right exhorted its base to get out there and kick some ass, I wouldn't be concerned that they were actually and literally going to go around kicking asses.

It's a metaphor. It's hyperbole. A recognized expression. Like, say, "bring a knife to a gun fight." Everyone knows there is no knife, no gun.

But second amendment solutions? Voting from the rooftops?
Especially when we've already established that the opposition are tyrannical terrorist traitors?

Those are not metaphors"

[Fridays Child]

1. Yes!

[unblock]

2. great point, but complete useless against right-wingers. they would simply respond:

"what's a meta for?"

[yodermon]

3. Yep. AND, it's further complicated by the fact that many of the right-wing adherents

do not UNDERSTAND metaphor. To them it's *valid* to complain about the left's imagery because they don't understand that the Left is speaking in metaphor, and they don't understand that the Right *isn't*.

[cling2reality]

4. The left speaks in metaphors

The right speaks in CODE

[nashville_brook]

5. k and r