Liberals Have Won the Culture War

Or so it seems. According to Andrew Breitbart:
What the Republican Party needs to do now is figure out how to make up for 40 years of ignoring the net effect of film, television and music, and the youth culture that goes along with it. When will the people who make the big decisions [...]

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Olbermann Is Shriek and Cringe Worthy

Sarah Palin, when shown a photo recently of MSNBC’s resident douche bag Keith Olbermann, let out a shriek and said, “THAT guy is EVIL!”
I have to admit that my instinctive reactions about MSNBC’s resident hate-monger are similar to Palin’s. Whenever I flip to an NFL pre-game analysis on NBC and I see that Olbermann is [...]

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Truth-Telling is Demeaning? Come Again?

Sarah Palin is counter-attacking some smear mongers (aka the mainstream media) who have been making apparently false claims that her daughter Bristol and her son-in-law Levi Johnston are high-school dropouts.
This prompted media expert Michael Levine to characterize her statements as “profoundly unusual”  and, “in some ways, demeaning of the position she has. It’s so clearly [...]

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Goldberg at odds with the oughts?

Near the end of what appears to be a routine and yawntastic scold piece…
It was during the oughts that Americans started drinking more bottled water than beer. As Susan McWilliams of Pomona College observes, you can tell something about a society that chooses clever water over humble beer. Bottled water is personal, inward-driven. Beer is [...]

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Conservative Talk Radio, V2.0

Conservative talk radio seems to be trying to position itself as the vanguard of the resistance movement. Here’s an interesting read in the New York Times detailing all of the movers and shakers.

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“Existing Public Narratives”

This quote got under my skin today:
“[A]ny attacks have to conform to existing public narratives of Obama.”—Patrick Ruffini
I happen to agree with the author’s excellent general premise (that “our hits against him have to be clean hits, or they will blow up in our face”) but where’s the creativity in conforming to “existing public narratives” [...]

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Tilling New Soil and Replanting Existing Soil

After the 2006 and 2008 election fiascoes, the GOP needs to make up some ground and do it quick. That’s obvious. This article in Milwaukee’s Journal-Sentinel suggests that we till some Upper Midwest soil. In the article, a Democratic election analyst named Ruy Teixeira (no relation to the whiny, money-grubbing former Texas Rangers’ 1st baseman) [...]

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New GOP Strategy: Pander To Horndogs?

Apparently the Male-Rights Movement doesn’t think the GOP is giving them enough freedom to have promiscuous, accountability-free sex. Because of that perceived slight, they’ve left the Republican Party in droves. Here’s a taste of the story:
From interviews I conducted on many young American backpackers who traveled Europe this summer, the #1, #2 and #3 reasons [...]

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Not Gay “Fascism”, But Certainly Gay “Militance”

Newt Gingrich has taken quite a bit of heat for his recent comment regarding “gay fascists.” Rather than “fascist” which denotes a nationalistic tendency, perhaps the more appropriate term would be “militant.”

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Attack People, Not Ideas

Attack People, Not Ideas. That was the M.O. during the 2008 presidential race for both sides. The left was much better at it than the right, which is one reason they won the election. The right is going to have to stop pretending that they (as evangelicals like to say) “love the sinner but hate [...]

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