My unlikely bridge to the right [NPR type moves right]

Washington Times ^ | March 27, 2004 | Paul Beston

[JusPasenThru]

Bump.

[exDemMom]

Great article! The journey described here doesn't bear much resemblence to the journey I made. It's always interesting to see how other people have crossed over from the darkside into the light.

[Stultis]

Conservative sighting in NYC!

[viaveritasvita]

I used to have a leftie roommate who actually worked on All Things Considered! I was living with the enemy! To say that I was misinformed is an understatement of biblical proportions.

Semper Fi

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[Lancey Howard]

Great post. This is very well written.

[Paul_B]

Super job. Bookmarked. Thanks much, Roscoe. Great job, Mr. Beston.

[viaveritasvita]

There's hope!

Thanks for the excellent article.

Bork's book "Slouching Toward Gomorrah" was one of the best books I ever read.

Semper Fi

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[KC Burke]

After my eldest went away to college at Coe in Iowa in '94, I loaned him a copy of Steele's first best seller. Steel had been a student activist at Coe and left the left as he matured and furthered his education and life experience, as I understand it. Fine writer.

[Marie]

btt

[Noumenon]

With my new found wisdom, I had concluded that liberals were simply wrong.

Many of them crossed over the line from just plain wrong to downright evil a long time ago.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Well-written. Reminds me of my own right-ward journey.

[Libertina]

Note the cure. Bottle it. Give it away! (FREE!)

[Interesting Times]

It's encouraging to think that conservatism can attract people of this quality, even after years spent marinating in the mythology of the other side.

Terrific article. Thanks...

[Gracey]

Great article, Roscoe. Thank you so much for sharing. I've sent to many past and present DemoncRats.

Great find, well written, with just enough emotion.

[Amelia]

Those who don't know how good a closing line this is, does not know their enemy.

Wondering how many people didn't get it.

I spend the drive to work questioning the NPR radio announcers, but it has taught my children to recognize bias in reporting - my youngest is really good at picking out bias, omissions, etc.!

[Amelia]

FYI

[Socratic]

"...it has taught my children to recognize bias in reporting - my youngest is really good at picking out bias..."

That's some fine parenting goin on there!

[CatoRenasci]

This is a good article. What troubles me, however, is now many of us on the right, especially we Freepers, do not really read the Left's intellectuals. Oh, sure, we're exposed to the daily bias of the press and liberal pontificating, but few, I suspect, actually read the liberal and leftist intellectuals. This is as much a mistake as the left's not reading conservative thinkers: we risk attacking only a caricature of the left, which transmogrifies into a straw man.

[TopQuark]

The only thing we can expect of ourselves is to grow. This inludes change if such is warranted by new information. Yet, it's one of the hardest things to do and separates those that are intellectually honest from those that are not. I respect this gentleman greatly.

[Dutchgirl]

"Real human beings do not have any large unfulfilled capacity for love," Bork wrote. "They simply do not regard men as infinitely precious, whatever the homilist may say on Sunday; and they lack the boundless energy and selflessness required to will themselves to brotherhood. ...

When utopians are frustrated in the realization of their vision by the real nature of humans, who are then seen as perversely evil, they can turn nasty and violent."

Maybe other liberals already knew that the soul of man was, at best, equal parts dark and light. For me, though, coming up against this assertion -- which I instantly recognized as true --

Truth ping!