Jeopardy! contestant insults liberals' in final response !

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Jeopardy! contestant 'finds a way to insult liberals' in final Jeopardy response

www.ew.com/article/2015/10/26/jeopardy-contestant-insults-liberals-final-jeopardy



The final question asked the remaining two contestants to identify the name of a flower by its picture
and by its name also being “a disparaging term for people on the political left.”

Becky Sullivan, unsure of the answer, wrote “pansy” as her response.

Apparently the 'correct' answer was: BLEEDING HEART,
which both Ms. Sullivan and myself were unaware of
being named for a flower.  Personally, I believe BOTH
answers are correct!  She was robbed.....

[paisley]

Sometimes there are two answers. Pansy works

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While bleeding heart (dicendra spectabilis) may be the correct answer, pansy is much more apt.

(For the record, I have grown bleeding hearts in the past. They are lovely, and do well in the shade. Also appropriate over lost pets' graves...)

[melissa]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassionate_conservatism

"Historian and presidential advisor Doug Wead may have been the first person to use the phrase compassionate conservative. In 1977, Wead wrote a book about Kolkata, India, entitled The Compassionate Touch.[1] In 1979, he gave a popular speech entitled “The Compassionate Conservative” at the annual Washington Charity Dinner. Tapes of the speech were sold across the country at corporate seminars.[2]

Wead contended that the policies of Republican conservatives should be motivated by compassion, not protecting the status quo. And Wead declared himself to be “a bleeding heart conservative,” meaning that he cared for people and sincerely believed that a free marketplace was better for the poor."




One can be a bleeding heart conservative as well...

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Oct 27, 2015 16:30:36 GMT melissa said:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassionate_conservatism

"Historian and presidential advisor Doug Wead may have been the first person to use the phrase compassionate conservative. In 1977, Wead wrote a book about Kolkata, India, entitled The Compassionate Touch.[1] In 1979, he gave a popular speech entitled “The Compassionate Conservative” at the annual Washington Charity Dinner. Tapes of the speech were sold across the country at corporate seminars.[2]

Wead contended that the policies of Republican conservatives should be motivated by compassion, not protecting the status quo. And Wead declared himself to be “a bleeding heart conservative,” meaning that he cared for people and sincerely believed that a free marketplace was better for the poor."




One can be a bleeding heart conservative as well...

No such animal exists Melissa.... I'll make the same analogy that I do when someone says that if you go to a church, then you're a Christian,
and contending that just because someone spends most of their day living in a garage, doesn't necessarily make them a motor vehicle.

I'll go with the label "compassionate conservative", but the description of "BLEEDING HEART" is reserved solely for the liberals....or pansy.

[Ozarks Tom]

Oct 27, 2015 16:30:36 GMT melissa said:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassionate_conservatism

"Historian and presidential advisor Doug Wead may have been the first person to use the phrase compassionate conservative. In 1977, Wead wrote a book about Kolkata, India, entitled The Compassionate Touch.[1] In 1979, he gave a popular speech entitled “The Compassionate Conservative” at the annual Washington Charity Dinner. Tapes of the speech were sold across the country at corporate seminars.[2]

Wead contended that the policies of Republican conservatives should be motivated by compassion, not protecting the status quo. And Wead declared himself to be “a bleeding heart conservative,” meaning that he cared for people and sincerely believed that a free marketplace was better for the poor."




One can be a bleeding heart conservative as well...

I think the term compassionate conservative is misunderstood.  Caring about others is something we should all do, but like when God answers prayers - sometimes the answer is no, for our own good.