Liberal as a Perjorative

Along with Barbra Streisand, George Clooney is one of the Left's true deep thinkers. And he's bothered that "liberal" has become a term of derision.

"Yes, I'm a liberal and I'm sick of it being a bad word," the actor-director tells the Sunday Times of London.

"I don't know at what time in history liberals have stood on the wrong side of social issues. We thought that blacks should sit at the front of the bus, that women should be allowed to vote, that maybe McCarthy was a jerk, that Vietnam was wrong and strip-bombing Cambodia was probably stupid. We've been on the right side of all these issues."

Well it wouldn't be if people like Clooney did not call themselves liberals. That makes it almost synonymous with arrogant, ignorant jackass.