There will be a little less attention to the blog for a few weeks. I was offered a fellowship at Evergreen Freedom Foundation so I will be moving from my hometown of Portland to Olympia, Washington to work with them. I am very excited about this opportunity to make connections with college students in the state of Washington and help them to understand and articulate Conservative beliefs.
All that said, October will be a slow month for the blog. Hope you understand.
Best,
Victoria
I don’t think that hyperbole helps the conservative cause. I don’t think that exaggeration and sarcasm are winning any points for our team. (Let’s be sure, I’m not talking about Republicans here. I’m talking about Conservatives.)
Why is no one trying to stage formal debates? What happened to points and counterpoints? Why are liberals so easily able to chalk up Conservative theories to nothing more than a chance for emotionally charged screaming fests nightly on Fox? This is embarrassing.
It’s hard to forgive these types of behavior as a liberal. Not to say that liberals don’t scream, shout, call names, exaggerate and lie also – they do. But when I started wanting simple information – not Armageddon predictions or Doomsday theories, there was a lot to forgive. I was tempted numerous occasions to give up because of people’s constant exaggeration. Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity may as well have been speaking Farsi. I didn’t understand a word that came out of their mouths.
Let’s simply lay out the facts, nothing more and nothing less – as frequently as possible. Forbes gets this right on a fairly consistent basis. Other conservative outlets could stand to learn a lesson.
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Congrats! That sounds great.
I'm not sure I agree. Coulter has her equivalents on the left. And she does get a lot right. Forbes is great, but isn't a good vehicle for making the populist argument for capitalism. Reason and Commentary aren't either. We need TV hosts for that.
Beck and Hannity get a lot wrong, and I wish they'd leave the hardcore social conservatism out (being a social liberal myself, and also thinking it alienates more people than it attracts). They do a decent job showing that the left doesn't own the moral high ground on corruption.
But there really isn't anyone out there, or if there is I've missed it, making a compelling case for how (appropriately regulated) capitalism helps everyone -- not just the rich.
I think that recently the landscape has changed.
It may have taken Beck's somewhat outlandish "Obama's a racist" statement and the ensuing rage from the left that anyone would dare say such a thing, but since then, in my opinion, it is the left who is screaming, and the right is acting in a much more civil manner.
To watch MSNBC on any given night, you would think that anyone on the right is a radical, gun toting, bomb carrying radical who wishes death on President Obama and for America to burn to the ground. The mockery, as opposed to actual debate of facts, is quite childish and very much representative of the liberalism I despise (more like progressive), and reminds me of all the reasons I no longer can associate myself with that agenda.
Meanwhile, Fox (since you mention Coulter and Hannity) have been much more reserved in their approach. They're simply trying to bring the facts to light, and backing off the antagonistic carnival barking. Beck is now presenting himself as "just a Dad, trying to make sure my kids have a chance," and while Hannity is still much more partisan, it's hard to argue with him about issues like Obama's czar that seems to agree with pedophilia.
Additionally, the pols in Washington - since the August recess ended - have all been radical on the left, and relatively reasonable on the right. It is the left who are refusing to post legislation online, and saying that "The Republican solution for health care is to die quickly" and making Holocaust comparisons. And while they censured Joe Wilson, Nancy Pelosi gave
Alan Grayson of Florida a pass.
Just some thoughts...
And good luck in Olympia, it sounds like a great opportunity!!
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