Yes it is a struggle because far too many of the liberals who dominate the news media actually have ever met open conservatives or even tried to strike up friendships with them. In certain places of the country (Upper West Side of Manhattan, Cambridge MA, Bel Air, Georgetown) conservatives (as opposed to RINOs) are as rare as any endangered species (think Siberian Tiger) you see on the National Geographic channel. Conservatives seem odd, alien, and are at best objects of curiosity – that’s when they are not in liberals eyes being bigots, white supremicists, raaaaacists, and troglodytes. The irony of all this is that self described “conservatives” outnumber self described “liberals” 2 to 1.
by Jonah Goldberg
There has been a lot of news in the last week or so: the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the death of Sen. Robert Byrd, the oil spill off the Gulf Coast, the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings, the cratering economy and stock market, even the World Cup. But for a few days at the end of June, Beltway pundits were consumed with the ballad of David Weigel, a blogger for The Washington Post, briefly assigned to cover the “conservative beat.”And just what is the conservative beat?
Well, according to many of the nation’s leading editors, it’s that shadowy, often-sinister world where carbon based-life forms of a generally humanoid appearance say and do things relating to, and supportive of, conservative causes and the Republican Party. These strange creatures have been observed using complex tools, caring and nurturing their young and even participating in complex social rituals. Most worship an unseen sky god that traces its roots back to the ancient Middle East. Even more astounding, these creatures are having a noticeable impact on American politics.
And that is why many of our leading journalistic enterprises have found it worthwhile to assign full-time reporters to the task of spelunking through the dark caves of conservatism to better understand these fascinating, if vaguely worrisome, beings.
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Now The Washington Post is scrambling to figure out how to cover conservatives. Part of the reason the Post looks so lost is that it seems apparent that it thought it was hiring a conservative to cover conservatives when Weigel was more like a libertarian-leaning liberal with a good conservative phrase book and a dashing right-wing pith helmet. A registered Republican, Weigel nonetheless voted for Barack Obama, John Kerry and Ralph Nader for president. Meanwhile, left-wing groups who find the news media insufficiently liberal are now clamoring for their own reporters to cover the “liberal beat.”
Read the rest here: The new frontier: “Covering’ Conservatives
Addendum by Rodan:
The Tranzi Totalitarian Progressive propaganda media is very biased against Conservatives. They cover Islamic-Imperialists and other radical causes in a positive light. When it comes to the Right however, it’s always very negative. Clearly the Leftists despise Conservatives and views us as a threat. In reality they are the threat and danger to American civilization. Recently the Washington Post assigned David Weigel to cover Conservatives. As predicated it was usually very negative stories and David admitted in emails he despised Conservatives. Clearly the media is nothing more than an arm of the Democratic Party.
Conservatives should be under no illusions when dealing with the media. They are our enemies and we need to treat them as such.
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