Word: vitriolic
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...other times, though, your vitriol just seems uninformed, malicious and disproportionate. You seem to believe that since I'm not a lock-step liberal - and we can talk about what a liberal actually is some other time - I'm some sort of creepy, covert conservative. Of course, most conservatives consider me a liberal. I call myself a moderate - a radical or flaming moderate, take your pick - because in this witlessly overheated political environment, you've got to call yourself something. But the conservatives do have a point: I disagree with Ronald Reagan's famous formulation, "Government is part...
...VEEP'S VITRIOL In 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney told Senator Patrick Leahy to "go f___ yourself" after the Democrat criticized Halliburton, which Cheney once...
...closet" that require them to seek protection from left-wing magistrates. Berlusconi lashed out again following protests against him in Genoa, warning that his opponents were allied with radical forces who put Italy "in a situation of democratic emergency." Mind you, his opponents haven't lacked for vitriol. Diego Della Valle, chairman of luxury shoemakers Tod's and one of the businessmen savaged by the PM, returned fire: "Mr. Berlusconi is a tired man. His family should take him home and take care of him." Center-left Parliament whip Luciano Violante told an interviewer that Berlusconi "has a Mafia circle...
...There will be more vitriol hurled, and the last has yet to be heard about the Muhammad cartoons. Although the Western media believe that freedom of expression is a right, no rights are lost when one respects another's sensitivities. The issue is not the behavior of Islamic fanatics but our insistence on seeing the world the way we want to, not as others see it. Manuel Arboleda Manila...
...There will be more vitriol hurled, and the last has yet to be heard about the Muhammad cartoons. Although the Western media believe that freedom of expression is a right, no rights are lost when one respects another's sensitivities. The issue is not the behavior of Islamic fanatics but our insistence on seeing the world the way we want to, not as others see it. Manuel Arboleda Manila, the Philippines...