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Meanwhile, David Brooks identifies a dislike of Big Government as the problem with Republicans and conservatives, while the conservative National Review summit brings in John Podheretz and MSNBCs Joe Scarborough to discuss how best to fix conservatism so that it can compromise with contemporary pragmatic (big) governance. Which, from what I gather, involves re-labeling RINOs and moderates conservative and lopping off the fringe-right Hobbity Visigoth extremists altogether.
Like leftists, these people look for easy marks after all, how brave is it to demonize conservatism and the TEA Party movement when the press and the Democrats have been doing so since it galvanized around what Brooks calls a dangerous and unwinning encroachment narrative favored by anti-intellectual wingnuts and in exchange for taking pot shots and mirroring leftwing assumptions, they are praised as the true thinkers on the right. Even though theres hardly a conservative, classical liberal, constitutionalist, or libertarian anywhere in the bunch.
Just more government-worshipping statists who, as they become part of the media matrix, aid the leftwing agenda by giving ostensible cover to the idea that divergent viewpoints are being aired, when in fact all they are doing is helping the left redefine itself as moderate, claiming for themselves the mantle of conservatism, and pushing the founding principles out to the fringes in a way that is entirely cynical and self-serving.
But I digress. Kind of.
Because what I really wanted to point out here is how two stories have been covered. The first involves some tricky editing, and is being pushed by the mainstream press as part of its attempt to demonize the NRA and shame legal gun owners until they willingly disarm in exchange for a reversal of pariah status.
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Manufactured consent: US Pravda is enabling a coup | protein wisdom
Meanwhile, David Brooks identifies a dislike of Big Government as the problem with Republicans and conservatives, while the conservative National Review summit brings in John Podheretz and MSNBCs Joe Scarborough to discuss how best to fix conservatism so that it can compromise with contemporary pragmatic (big) governance. Which, from what I gather, involves re-labeling RINOs and moderates conservative and lopping off the fringe-right Hobbity Visigoth extremists altogether.
Like leftists, these people look for easy marks after all, how brave is it to demonize conservatism and the TEA Party movement when the press and the Democrats have been doing so since it galvanized around what Brooks calls a dangerous and unwinning encroachment narrative favored by anti-intellectual wingnuts and in exchange for taking pot shots and mirroring leftwing assumptions, they are praised as the true thinkers on the right. Even though theres hardly a conservative, classical liberal, constitutionalist, or libertarian anywhere in the bunch.
Just more government-worshipping statists who, as they become part of the media matrix, aid the leftwing agenda by giving ostensible cover to the idea that divergent viewpoints are being aired, when in fact all they are doing is helping the left redefine itself as moderate, claiming for themselves the mantle of conservatism, and pushing the founding principles out to the fringes in a way that is entirely cynical and self-serving.
But I digress. Kind of.
Because what I really wanted to point out here is how two stories have been covered. The first involves some tricky editing, and is being pushed by the mainstream press as part of its attempt to demonize the NRA and shame legal gun owners until they willingly disarm in exchange for a reversal of pariah status.
***snip***
Continue reading: --->
Manufactured consent: US Pravda is enabling a coup | protein wisdom
