The following is from the quote (of the right-wing blog) in the LGF post:

“Anyway, on to Adam’s “typical Democrat family”. The term Bill O’Reilly used to describe Bill Mutterperl is “Democratic stalwart”.”

This is one of my pet peeves. A few years ago, I remember seeing political consultant Frank Luntz on Fox News. He was explaining his latest contribution to our politics: in his research, people thought badly of the Democratic Party when the adjective was “Democrat”, instead of the correct “Democratic”. As he explained to the TV audience, the reason was the association with the word “rat”.

As we see in the quote above, the right-wing blog used the incorrect “Democrat”, while Bill O’Reilly (perhaps forgetting the wisdom of Frank Luntz) used the correct “Democratic”.

I recently saw a “pundit” on CNN slip in the phrase “Democrat Congress”, and I immediately reminded myself that I don’t watch CNN when the pundits are on, and changed the channel.