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Newsbusters has the round-up of upset liberal writers on George Bush’s use of the word “Democrat” instead of “Democratic”. As in the awful phrase he included in the State of the Union, “I congratulate the Democrat majority.”

Newsbusters summarizes:

The amazing liberal vapors over over President Bush’s use of the word “Democrat” to describe, er, Democrats, continues. In an NPR interview with Juan Williams, President Bush claimed it was a simple mistake in his State of the Union speech, but liberals quickly found more of these grievous offenses in searching speech texts at the White House website. Certain left-wing media critics who lay face down in worship at the feet of Hillary Clinton are now insisting that the word “Democrat” is a “smear” and an “oft-used Republican slur.” The Washington Post and The New York Times each produced stories on Bush’s denial of this microscopic scandal. […]

But my favorite fuss comes from former Newsweek reporter and Carter speechwriter Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker, who says the plain D-word is “jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams ‘rat.’ “

I didn’t realize that democrats objected to being called a ‘democrat’. I understand that none of them want to be termed a ‘liberal’, which was the main motivation for their inventing the term ‘moderate’ for themselves. Having done that, they also exchanged the label on the other end of the political spectrum, changing from referring to a ‘conservative’ to now the more commonly used ‘extreme right-wing KKK-loving Bible-thumping neo-Nazi sympathizer’.

But, much like I was earlier surprised to find out that the word ‘thug’ was a racial epithet, I will take it under advisement that the word ‘democrat’ is a smear and a slam. Not wanting to offend anyone, I will try to make offense in the future.

I will henceforth attempt to make sure I refer to Hilary and Obama and company as ‘democratics’. If there are other ‘democratics’ involved, I will refer to them as such. And then they can get the full benefit of the “positive connotations of its chosen appellation.” And since the ‘democratics’ now have control of Congress once again, we must be careful to give them the proper terms of respect.