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How to “Take” a Liberal

by Edward Langley

Lattimore’s books, the “Manchester Guardian,” framed Herblock cartoons: with such lures will the canny conservative entrap the unsuspecting Left

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Are you sensitive—easily bruised? Worry a lot about bad manners in high places? Is your conscience a fine, hair-trigger mechanism which throws you into a state of shock when a low, yellow journalist uses the word “sellout” in connection with the Supreme Court? Do you wince when you see national review because it is “opinionated”? Or maybe moan in your sleep about “the impression America is making on her friends overseas”? Speak up now, brother, because if the shoe fits, you shouldn’t go on. What follows here will bother the hell out of you.

Those of you remaining around the campfire, hard-bitten, crafty, reactionary, soulless freebooters, listen hard, because I think you have been missing the knockout spot in your brawls with those gentlemen of the Left who just walked out of here in a huff. But let me go on . . .

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