This leftist image owed much to Mr. Lothrop, a small man whose booming oratory made him seem large.
Shapiro, a syndicated columnist whose books include "Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future," asserts in his new tome that there is an inherent and very intentional effort by entertainment industry leaders to "shape America in their own leftist image," as he told the UK's Independent.
After his execution by the Bolivian army, he was regarded as a martyred hero by generations of leftists worldwide, and his image became an icon of leftist radicalism and anti-imperialism.
Some gay conservatives even blame the leftists for the enduring image of homosexual men in the minds of some people as effeminate, louche, odd-balls who wear leather jockstraps.A swing to the rightSuch charges are to be found in "Beyond Queer", a series of essays edited by Bruce Bawer (Free Press; $25).
Many on China's far left embraced him as a potential ally; he in turn burnished his new image by luring leftist journalists, writers and intellectuals to his fief to extol the "Chongqing model" and sing red with him.
A few minutes earlier, fleshing out his vision of a mass stoppage in support of the final repeal of the Thatcher government's trade-union legislation, that reliable ultra-leftist desperado, Bob Crow, evoked the image of his members being locked up en masse in the new Wembley stadium, at the behest of an alliance of Boris Johnson and the boss class.
It was a contrast to his image as a militaristic leftist in the mold of Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, whom Mr. Humala admired during a failed bid for Peru's presidency in 2006.
In early 1989 Spain's conservatives again tried to present a more centrist image to the increasingly leftist Spanish population and to disassociate themselves from their Francoist heritage, incorporating the small centrist Liberal Party and adopting a new name, the Popular Party PPPopular Party PP
The university is often associated with what conservatives mockingly call "caviars," a term roughly equivalent to "limousine liberals," meant to evoke the image of well-off leftists who maintain a comfortable lifestyle while espousing politically correct notions of equality and class consciousness.
"I did not say anything against the Islamic civilisation... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims".
One, the Reut Institute, proposes establishing a pro-Israel network, for instance involving evangelical churches, to counter Islamist and leftist ones, and rebranding Israel with liberal images such as gay-pride pageants.
