Devoted Leftist Big Apple Mayoral Candidate Bill de Blasio Complains About Being Called a "Leftist": Maybe Next He'll Object to Being Referred to as "Bill"?

The New York City mayoral race would have been so much more entertaining if Anthony's Weiner hadn't effectively pulled out of the race (or at least deflated all chances of winning) as a result of another sexting/donging scandal. What the democrat party has been left with is this ardent leftist kook named Bill de Blasio. Nothing says fun n' games, after all, quite like a hardened leftist ideologue and wannabe "revolutionary"!

Now I'm not quite sure what got into the New York Times over the past few weeks, but the normally reliable left-wing advocacy rag reported that de Blasio has a past history of supporting Latin American leftist "revolutionaries" as well as the concept of "democratic socialism." The Times even had the gall to refer to de Blasio as a "leftist." (Talk about Pot calling Kettle black!)

De Blasio has been fumin' over the Times story, calling it out for a lack of "balance" and for calling him a "leftist" (link below). It's the latter objection that I can't even begin to grasp...

As a preface, I don't call these politicians on either side by the names they've chosen for themselves. They don't deserve any such level of respect. As such, you won't see the "l" or the "p" or the "c" word used in this space. I also distort the two parties' names for the same reason. But I also don't try to be downright derogatory or crass in the terms that I do use...

For example, the people comprising the base of the democrat party (about 20% of the American population) are leftists. There's nothing particularly insulting about that term. It simply reflects fact.

For a guy like de Blasio to deny being a leftist is like referring to Obama as a "moderate" (as many leftists like to do) or like (perhaps slightly less preposterously) claiming that the world is actually flat.

I've often told these leftists that just because they may say something ridiculous 1000 times over doesn't make it any more true, no more than they can piss on my back and convince me the drought's ended.  De Blasio's a leftist. Embrace it, Bill.  That is, if I'm getting the "Bill" part right.

http://politicker.com/2013/09/bill-de-blasio-explains-his-liberation-theology/