Savor the symmetry

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Gabfly1, Dec 15, 2009.

  1. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    Wrong again. The term first showed up in an NYT article. Don't YOU hate the NYT?

    Guess who looks incredibly ignorant now? :D :D

    Maybe if you reichtard bitches stopped copying us and tricking your nitwitted selves into thinking it was YOUR ideas, you wouldn't look like total tools. :p
     
    #21     Dec 16, 2009
  2. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Really?

    Origins

    "The term is commonly attributed to Vladimir Lenin, sometimes in the form "useful idiots of the West"..."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

    Modern usage

    "In the United States, the term is used as a pejorative to describe a naive person manipulated to produce propaganda for a malign cause.

    Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term "useful idiot" has also been used by some commentators to describe individuals they believe to be too 'soft' against Islamism and terrorism"
     
    #22     Dec 16, 2009

  3. how old are you?
     
    #23     Dec 16, 2009
  4. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    I am not the least bit surprised that you would leave off the most relevant parts:

    In fact, the earliest known usage is a 1948 New York Times [article] on Italian politics.

    In the spring of 1987, Grant Harris, senior reference librarian at the Library of Congress, said "We have not been able to identify this phrase [useful idiots of the West] among [Lenin's] published works."
     
    #24     Dec 16, 2009

  5. Whether you are correct or incorrect, the phrase is extraordinarily purposeful to describe you,


    Believe in "Global Warming" do you?
     
    #25     Dec 16, 2009
  6. fhl

    fhl

    It looks like all the polls are showing that America hates Obamacare. Maybe Keith Olbermann will choose the entire American Population as the worst people in the world. Oh wait, like most progressives, he already does.
     
    #26     Dec 16, 2009
  7. Mnphats

    Mnphats


    LOL!!!!
     
    #27     Dec 16, 2009
  8. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Actually I was thinking this WAS the most important part.
    Origins

    "The term is commonly attributed to Vladimir Lenin"


    He was dead 24 years before the NYT article you seem to be enamored with.
     
    #28     Dec 16, 2009
  9. Mnphats

    Mnphats


    Life would have been so much better under Al Whore or John Fing Kerry.
     
    #29     Dec 16, 2009
  10. jem

    jem

    It is kind of funny that al whore has probably made 10 times than he would have had he been president.


    I will bet the clintons are pissed.
     
    #30     Dec 16, 2009