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- From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: bleeding hearts
- Message-ID: <BD.92Nov7091351@fluent.UUCP>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 14:13:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.182235.22148@research.nj.nec.com>
- Sender: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
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- In-Reply-To: haushalt@research.nj.nec.com's message of 5 Nov 92 18:22:35 GMT
-
- haushalt@research.nj.nec.com (Robert C. Haushalter) writes:
-
- >On Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:06:42 GMT you said:
- >
- >>In fact, it is very common for conservative
- >Republicans to openly make fun of the compassion expressed by liberal
- >Democrats. This is why they use the expression "bleeding-heart liberal"
- >so often.
- >
- >
- >This "bleeding-heart-liberal" is such an interesting phrase. It is
- >apparently in reference to the pictures of Jesus Christ (usually
- >holding his shirt open) with his heart in his chest dripping blood.
- >Right-wingers always use this term. . . . so do they mean:
- >(1) That liberals are Christ-like? or
- >(2) That liberals and Jesus Christ are both jerks?
- >
- >Just wondering......
-
- I have never seen an image of Christ with his heart pierced - the
- wound is always much lower in the chest than that. I have also
- never seen an image of Christ where he is "holding his shirt open".
-
- Robert, what ever made you think that "bleeding-heart" was a reference
- to Christ?
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