"It's too late to restore the term "liberal" to neo-CONSERVATIVES, where it belongs." The Center for the Study of Popular Culture Asks: Who is Left? LOS ANGELES, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week, David Horowitz and the Center for the Study of Popular Culture began a two-month national advertising campaign to recapture the language of political debate for conservatives. The centerpieces of the campaign are two separate advertisements which will appear in magazines that run the ideological gamut from the conservative Weekly Standard to the moderately liberal New Republic. Other magazines carrying the ads include Commentary, Human Events, Reason, Roll Call, Insight, and the American Spectator. Cultural warrior and President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, David Horowitz was recognized with Robert Bork and William Bennett as one of the leaders of intellectual conservatism by Harold Meyerson in the February 19-26, 1999 issue of LA Weekly. Mr. Horowitz has repeatedly pointed out in the CSPC's FrontPage Magazine (www.frontpagemag.com), that the ability to define an opponent is a decisive edge in politics. For two hundred years, the Left has controlled the political language. Leftist control of the language has gone so far as to redefine the very spectrum of political beliefs. Indeed, so far as the "mainstream" press is concerned, there is no left in the American political spectrum. Mr. Horowitz believes that it is time to re-examine the labels that define American politics -- to take a balanced view of the political process and identify the political left. It is too late to restore the term "liberal" to neo-conservatives where it belongs. But it is not too late to be ideologically accurate, it is not too late to stop calling people who are actually leftists, liberal. The information below is taken from the advertisement, which is also posted on www.frontpagemag.com: The Way the CSPC Sees It LEFT FAR LEFT LEFT LEFT LIBERAL MODERATE LIBERAL Noam Chomsky Hilary Clinton Al Gore Bill Clinton Malcolm X Stokely Carmichael Martin Luther King Gene McCarthy Jane Fonda Jane Fonda Eleanor Clift Jane Fonda Hayden ('80s) Turner ('70s) Vadim ('60s) Kwame Ture Sen. Paul Wellstone Sen. Ted Kennedy Sen. Tom Daschle Catherine MacKinnon Patricia Ireland Donna Shalala Geraldine Ferraro Z Magazine The Nation New York Times The New Republic Covert Action Village Voice Washington Post WSJ Feature Pages Pacifica Radio NPR CNN ABC, CBS, NBC Homer's mother Lisa Simpson Mayor Quimby Marge Simpson Revolutionary Congressional Democratic Democratic Communist Party Black Caucus Party Leadership Council Greenpeace Both NEAs Urban Institute Brookings Institution Campus Organizing Committee MacArthur Awards Ford Foundation Carnegie Endowment Verso Press Most University, 99% of Book Publishers The Free Press Queer Studies English Lit. Political Science Languages Order of Che National Book Pulitzer Prize Humanitas Awards Award Louis Farrakhan Toni Morrison Spike Lee William Raspberry RIGHT MODERATE CONSERVATIVE RIGHT FAR RIGHT CONSERVATIVE Bob Dole Ronald Reagan Pat Buchanan David Duke Richard Nixon John F. Kennedy Barry Goldwater George Wallace Jane Fonda Bill Bennett G. Gordon Liddy Jared Taylor Fonda ('50s) President Newt Gingrich Gary Bauer Lou Sheldon George Bush Elizabeth Dole Lynne Cheney Phyllis Schlafly Marge Schott The Economist American Spectator Human Events Middle American News Reader's Digest WSJ Editorial page Chronicles American Renaissance Fox Firing Line Most talk radio Radio Free Idaho Homer Simpson Bart Simpson Ned Flanders Sideshow Bob American Reform Party GOP U.S. Taxpayers Party Freemen Hoover Institution Heritage Foundation Rockford Institute John Birch Society Nixon Library Bradley Foundation Von Mises Institute Liberty Lobby Yale University Press Regnery Spence Barricade Books Business Physics Football Eugenics 4H Club Badge Templeton Prize Edmund Burke Award Burning Cross Shelby Steele Ward Connerly Reggie White Louis Farrakhan For more information, please contact Leigh Stein at 800-752-6562 x218. SOURCE Center for the Study of Popular Culture CO: Center for the Study of Popular Culture ST: California IN: SU: 03/01/99 19:27 EST http://www.prnewswire.com
