“It’s much easier to figure out who’s ‘left’ and who isn’t using cultural litmus tests than it is using position papers. What’s the left position on monetary policy? I have no idea. What’s the left’s position on American Idol? Easy: it rolls its eyes.”
Matt Taibbi on the meaning of “The Left”
“It may sound like a mistake to say that it was reporters ‘on the left’ who harped on the whole Trig business, but it’s not a mistake if she’s using the word ‘left’ in the sense of ‘Godless east-coast intellectual watcher of subtitled movies who disagrees with me,’ which is where we’ve allowed this word to go.”