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The Right To Choose
By Matt Margolis | June 9, 2003
So did you hear about the National Progressive Conference to Take Back America that occured June 4-6 in Washington, DC? I didn’t know anything about it until I ran across a news article fron CNSNews.com which happened to mention it. My intrigue led me to search online about this conference and I came across http://www.ourfuture.org/projects/national_conference/index.cfm . One of the first lines to greet you is
The right-wing politicians who now run Washington are out of control.
I wish.
They are weakening America.
Aww, now that hurts. I’m offended. I’m suing! Hate speech!
No, seriously. This is gold. I’m excited already. This brings me to my next focus… The right wing media.
No need to check your eyes, you read correctly, the right wing media. Have you heard of Eric Alterman, author of the book “What Liberal Media?” CNSNews.com had an article called ‘Right Wing Media’ Called ‘Steamroller’ of Liberalism, and it reading it just goes to show you how liberals think. Mr. Alterman was one of the last speakers at the Take Back America conference.
No kidding right? How fitting.
Alterman said that conservatives dominate the media and they are now so powerful that “it’s a steamroller rolling over what is left of what we (liberals) believe and what we have worked for.”
Crybaby, crybaby, crybaby.
I’m not going to cite different damning examples proving left wing media bias on various major television networks, but I just want to highlight some of the stupid things Alterman said.
“Every time [conservatives] read anything they don’t like, they are on the case of the media, they are working the reps, and they are saying, ‘How dare you say that all homosexuals aren’t going to hell?’”
Since when? Can you tell me where? Can anyone show me an example of this?
“[Liberals] don’t lack for sound facts; we really just lack the capacity to get the facts out there.”
Yeah, we heard the same piss-poor, whiny crybaby excuse in November of 2002. Remember that? Remember Barbra Streisand and Terry McAuliffe yapping about the Democrats inability to get their message out? See, Democrats can’t lose on the issues, they lose on technicalities, and because Republicans don’t play by the rules. Republicans don’t win on the issues - they use dirty tricks. Yawn.
Conference panelist Anita Drobny, of AnShell Media said that the conservative-dominated media in America is not informing America accurately. According to Drobny:
“There are 350 hours of right wing talk [radio], and there are five hours of ‘other.’ Out of the five hours of ‘other,’ three hours is [Fox News’s] Alan Colmes. What does that say to us? It frightened me,”
Anita is an idiot. She’s stupid and also needs work on her math. Based on her numbers, Alan Colmes (who clearly is not a good enough liberal for Drobny) is 3 of the 5 hours of talk radio hosted by a liberal. Meaning that there is only one other liberal talk show in the entire country, and it is only two hours. I guess she wasn’t counting taxpayer funded NPR, amongst others.
Liberal math is apparently more complex than calculus… Because her numbers don’t work no matter how I try to get them to.
Another panelist, Dan Carol, of the Carl/Trevelyan Strategy Group warned the liberal conference cesspool that the left has lots of work to do before it can challenge the dominant right wing media.
I was just thinking, were Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Ted Turner, or Tom Brokaw there? I’d love to hear their thoughts on the right-wing media.
Dan Carol also said “Even if we had a TV channel right now, I don’t think we could fill it 24/7 with good programming.” I’m trying to think of a 24/7 conservative station. Why are they talking about a 24/7 liberal station? Isn’t CNN enough?
The article continues:
Alterman cited a New York Times report that indicated users of the conservative website Free Republic.com spend an average of more than five hours reading the site. That typifies the devotion of conservative activists, he said.
“They are not just masturbating in front of their computer screen, they are e-mailing their congressman, they are e-mailing letters to the editor, they are organizing gatherings, they are spreading rumors, getting stuff on Rush and Drudge that night,” Alterman explained.
Is Alterman implying that we fight better? I’ll tell you what he is saying. He’s saying that conservatives are doing exactly what good citizens are supposed to do! He’s pissed off that conservatives apparently care more about their country to do something. He’s pissed off that liberals are too busy learning about homosexual sex in school that they don’t know how to read and write a letter to the editor, or write their congressman. He’s pissed that liberals don’t know how to organize gatherings and spread rumors.
Wait a second, what ever happen to those “worldwide ‘anti-war’ protests,” those “nationwide campus anti-war protests?” Liberals don’t organize?
Here’s the deal. Liberals can’t accept defeat. They can’t accept failing the American public on the issues. They can’t even concede that maybe…just maybe… that more and more Americans are leaning conservative because they are conservative… because they want to be… because they are choosing the moral high ground… because they understand a life is life at conception… because they understand that the government is too big… that taxes are too high… that if you take guns away from us, then only criminals will have them… that Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator who had to be taken out… that child molesters shouldn’t be on the streets…. that you don’t eliminate discrimination by discriminating against the majority… that you can’t let everyone into this country and give them benefits they didn’t pay for… because Americans understand that the liberals are wrong.
“You can watch Fox News, you can read the Washington Times, the Weekly Standard, the New York Post, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh; it’s a whole world view, and it’s an energizing world view,” Alterman said. You can also watch CNN, you can also read the New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe, etc. etc. etc.
There are choices in America. What to watch… what to read… which websites to browse… Liberals want to remove your right to choose.
Your right to choose.
Because the option of conservative outlets disrupts the foundation of the liberal monopoly on… just about everything from education, to media, to Hollywood, to newspapers, to whatever you’d like.
Your right to choose.
Because the mere existance of conservatism is threatening to liberals. Because two sides to every story means at one point, you have to accept one eventually.
You can’t choose conservatism without it being someone elses fault. The “vast right-wing conspiracy” which is too blame for the liberals’ shortcomings.
Your right to choose is your right to reject liberalism if you want to. Liberals don’t want you to enjoy that freedom. They don’t care about what you are, unless you are what you should be: just like them. It’s not about right wing dominance. It’s about right wing presence.
Liberals feel threatened - and I know why.
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June 10th, 2003 at 2:56 am
I laugh every time I read something like this. There’s no Democratic president happily bowing to their policy-changing wishes, so they’re whining that the liberal media establishment is being steamrolled. No, dudes, they’ve got bloggers and other concerned people factchecking the liberal media’s butt now. It’s not our fault “accuracy” and “truth” were never in their stylebooks.
June 12th, 2003 at 12:04 am
Liberal math is apparently more complex than calculus… Because her numbers don’t work no matter how I try to get them to.
My friend has termed this type of math: “Math for sociology majors”.
(since a lot of the SOC dept. people at our school are the hard-lefties…)
August 3rd, 2003 at 1:41 pm
A lot of the people in any department of any institution of higher learning are hard lefties!