It’s pretty funny to see Newsday list a long roster of liberal, radical, and wacky left groups protesting in New York next week (for example, the women who wear brightly colored underwear with political slogans). Yet they only find one “liberal” label to apply — to People for the American Way, because, obviously, liberals usually think the words “American Way” reek of ethnocentrism and cultural imperialism. The roster sounds like a pamphlet of potential grantees for George Soros.

They’re even nice to the “Young Communist League of New York City,” described as “An inclusive group of local socialists and communists who oppose the war in Iraq, President Bush, the Republicans and capitalism in general.” Pity me for asking, but is communism usually “inclusive” in practice, Newsday?