Return of "Taliban wing" jargon
Josh Marshall resuscitates an unwelcome bit of liberal jargon by referring to the so-called "Taliban wing" of the Republican party:
The truth is that there's little apparent difference between Obama's position [on Israel] and Hillary's or, for that matter, anyone else in the mainstream of the Democratic party or most of the non-Taliban wing of Republican party
As we noted at Spinsanity, this phrase was popularized in 2001 by Julian Bond, the former head of the NAACP, and subsequently came into wide usage as part of a disturbing post-9/11 pattern of comparing one's political opponents to terrorists, Saddam Hussein, etc. By 2004, Senator Tim Johnson -- a moderate Democrat from a red state -- was using it on the campaign trial. It had seemingly died down since then so I'm sad to see it back in use.
Considering the source here, can you really be all that surprised? TPM has become a sad disappointment lately all around.
IowaMan~
Posted by: IowaMan | February 19, 2008 at 07:41 PM