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Conservative Barry Goldwater's granddaughter has produced a TV documentary for HBO which, according to today's New York Times Magazine, "rehabilitates him as a kind of liberal." It's revealing that the Times regards those who hold non-liberal political views are requiring "rehabilitation." But CC Goldwater gets how it works. "That was part of the reason I thought a film could be done about him," she says, hinting that a documentary that didn't conform the Goldwater legacy to the norms of today's liberal press couldn't get made.

Here's how she did it, according to the Times:

He emerges as a complex figure — a half-Jewish cowboy from Phoenix who believed the government should stay out of our hair.

So that's the definition of "liberal"? Believing that "government should stay out of our hair"? Give me a break. Surely that can't be what was in the mind of Hillary Clinton, who according to the documentary campaigned for Goldwater in 1964. CC says,

"Hillary was a Goldwater girl. Isn’t that hysterical? She passed out cookies and lemonade at his campaign functions."

Fact: Goldwater was a "liberal" the way Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a conservative -- in both cases, the opposing ideology can latch onto one of those men's libertarian streaks to claim him as an example of the compelling moral power of their own polar positions.

Thanks to Jameson Campaigne for the link.

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