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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, July 10, 2006

RE: The Hitler vs. Coulter Quiz

I found this to be very curious.

On my first pass, I got every one of them correct. It wasn't that hard. Hitler's language patterns are more archaic than Ann's. However, it dawned on me that the use of the word, "liberal" appears to be done with quite a bit of license. In Hitler's time, and in the context in which he would have written, the use of the word is probably not literal since he would have used it to refer to English liberalism, which we know here as libertarianism. In the quotes, it is quite clear that the word is being used to refer to American Leftists, so I found myself wondering what the German word used might have been. Unfortunately, there was no attribution of the quotes, so I guess I'll have to google them if I get interested enough.

1 Comments:

Blogger Andy W. Rogers said...

Are those quotes really Hitler's???

Monday, July 10, 2006 6:10:00 PM  

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