Comments on: Conservative Affirmative Action Again

By: sara

sara — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:42:19 +0000

Let Time magazine hire Vox Day (aka Theodore Beale) away from WorldNetDaily, and let the boy spout on about revoking women’s voting rights. Either the End Times are nigh and all liberals should leave the country, or the public will see what asses Beale and the other wingnuts are.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:17:34 +0000

I’ve long been convinced that Salon’s choice in conservatives indicates that their actual intention in publishing these things is to discredit conservatism.

By: Shelby

Shelby — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:20:00 +0000

So the MSM should “start hiring conservatives, at least conservative opinion journalists: It would allow conservatives to say and write what they actually think”?

Or, the conservatives could start blogs, and get jobs outside politics.

By: Doctor Slack

Doctor Slack — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:27:17 +0000

The “MSM” has been trying to appease movementarianism for ages (and hell, not just the “MSM”—Salon still publishes David Horowitz’ tripe, doesn’t it?). The effect of this is never to restrain or undermine the conservative machine—it simply extends its reach and make it easier for the RNC to cow a larger range of people and organizations. That’s an obvious enough dynamic that even a TNR hack should be able to figure it out by now… or not.

By: bza

bza — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:42:56 +0000

I’d start with diagnosing a condition with a name like Crimsonitis, since it is strongly correlated with attendance at Harvard University.

I’d like to point out that Scheiber did not attend Harvard, and that Beinert is in fact an Eli.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:40:28 +0000

I dunno … hiring professional raving dogmatists, so that they might be free to denounce those on their side who are generally of the same ideology, but slightly more politically pragmatic and not quite completely rabid – that’s either a move of Machiavellian brilliance, or a blunder of Pyrrhic proportions.

By: P ONeill

P ONeill — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:05:40 +0000

Still trying to find exact words for that, as you see

I’d start with diagnosing a condition with a name like Crimsonitis, since it is strongly correlated with attendance at Harvard University.

By: yabonn

yabonn — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:47:11 +0000

to hire lots of bright young conservatives.

Insert some obvious snark here.

… It’s a joke, but i’ve heard quite a few times that tune from the ever-surprising u.s. left. Something like “The right has a stiffling control of about everything that matters in this country, and i’m going to cave in to them on that little detail, but these two facts live in different universes, and it’s only because i’m reasonable”.

Still trying to find exact words for that, as you see.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:46:37 +0000

grackel – take a closer look. The Gibson post not only takes the same two paragraphs from a 100 page document, but recycles Chris’s introductory sentence verbatim. Now this isn’t anything to get bent out of shape over, obviously – it’s either unintentional or trivial. But it is fairly clearly a direct transcription of Chris’s post with a couple of tiny changes (the URL and description have gone, as has an indication that the first letter in the second paragraph wasn’t capitalized in the original).

By: P ONeill

P ONeill — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:42:57 +0000

It depends on what the meaning of “conservative” is. The Sunday morning talk shows are surely as MSM as it gets, and yet between the cast of Russert, Stephanopolous, Cokie, McLauglin, Matthews & Schieffer, I have a hard time seeing exactly who the liberal is. The Washington Post op-ed page has Will & Krauthammer in regular slots. Heck, “even the liberal” New York Times has Brooks and Tierney. So who’s not getting enough air and column inch time, according to Beinart? Jonah Goldberg?

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:38:18 +0000

Can’t somebody get a time machine, go back in history and wipe out TNR? I mean, get Osama fist, and Hitler, but TNR has got to be at least third.

By: grackel

grackel — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:37:07 +0000

two people citing the same source is plagiarism? So, then, severat CTers have plagiarized each other by linking to the Guiness ad? Gee, I dunno.