MadCityMan touched on this yesterday, but I wanted to add my own two cents…
During a recent appearance on Glenn Beck’s show, Republican Rep. Paul Ryan agreed with Beck’s excoriation of progressivism as a “cancer,” as Beck has done time and time again.
I’m not one to fly off the handle, but I have to agree with illy T, who summed it up best:
How disgusting. Cancer is cancer. Ask somebody who has it, or who has lost a loved one to it. This is about as low as a politician can get.
If you’d like, give Rep. Ryan’s office a call and let him know how you feel: 202-225-3031.
Oh come on, that term is used all the time to refer to something other than the disease of cancer.
Example: Barack Obama: “We’re in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from once again spreading through that country.” Dec 2009
Checkmate.
Yeah, because the Taliban = progressives.
Good analogy, forgot.
zack did you call obama and tell him how offended you are
No, because though I have him on speed-dial, I didn’t think this warranted a call.
Leave it to the left for inane scrutiny of a word used to describe the uncontrollable spread of a volatile idea. The more I think about it, cancer wasn’t the right word – STD would have been much more appropriate.