Been hearing a lot of bashing

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Bryce,
I watched CrossFire when I was in elementary school. I was at minimum a very unusual, perhaps you would even call a sick, child.

But even notwithstanding that, how can you possibly think that I am not familiar with the argument that there is a left leaning bias in the major media? Of course I am aware of this, from yellow journalism, through Cronkite, to Rather, to CNN.

But you either seem to discount my point, or just miss it completely. I do not deny a left bias in many outlets. I am still amazed by the type of blogs that Yahoo News selects for their front page. I am sure it is intentional.

That is besides the point. Yeah, the left wing media hurts a little. But I am saying that makes the trust put on what was originally supposed to be a fair and balanced, and later admitted to cater to conservative interests, media outlet – that is much more critical.

CNN can’t control the conservative movement. Conservatives stopped watching. They first adapted by going to talk radio. Then came Fox News.

The problem comes when Fox News fails in its obligations to the entire conservative movement. Fox plays a kingmaker role. They can anoint the power players now in the movement like no other organization. And they wield that power, at best, negligently-and at worst, and more likely, maliciously.

Lets end a myth right here. There is not just one conservative movement. Dogmatic just mentioned George Will and William F. Buckley. I like both those guys. Actually, I think they are perhaps 2 of the best models I can think of for what a conservative op-journalist should be. Buckely of course, is dead. But when was the last time you saw Will touch Fox News?

What about Pat Buchannon? He has a different take on conservatism that has at least a large number of adherents. I have never cared too much about NAFTA or immigration, but we don’t even have that debate in the party. We used to, in the 90s, when Buchannan was on CNN. But he got closed out.

The other day you and me debated national security policy. How often do you see that debate, between conservatives, on Fox News? And yet my position is a very old, respectable, intellectually honest position. So is yours. But we foreclose the debate before it starts. THAT is way more harmful than anything Soros does. A good bit of that comes down to fox news. They try to make less belligerent conservatives feel as if they should switch parties. They are the reason old women in south Carolina boo the golden rule. Its dumb. We are creating an inbred system of political thought, insulated from challenges just as if we were in the kremlin, and it makes us weak. The nominee just might end up being Newt Gingrich. We are doing this to ourselves. Some time, you have to say a suicide is a suicide.

A country cannot be destroyed so easily as it can destroy itself. The same is true for the Conservative movement. People are born and raised conservative. It is a deeply held, foundational idea that is unique to America. Outside sources cannot destroy it. CNN can piss people off, but it takes a friend with open arms to really ruin the movement by deflecting the impulses of a conservative in the directions the elite prefer.

What happened to William F. Buckely? Where are our real intellectuals? We throw them off TV, and replace them with demogagues such as Sean Hannity and Bill O’reilly.