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How Radio Wrecks the Right (Don't barf, it's by John Derbyshire!)
The American Conservative ^ | February 23, 2009 | John Derbyshire

Posted on 03/04/2009 6:39:43 AM PST by seatrout

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Conservatism cannot live by radio-talk alone, or so argues Derbyshire.
1 posted on 03/04/2009 6:39:43 AM PST by seatrout
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To: seatrout

Derbyshire?

Who is this mope?


2 posted on 03/04/2009 6:41:14 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: seatrout

Good article.


3 posted on 03/04/2009 6:42:44 AM PST by Huck (Palin is perfect just where she is....in Alaska.)
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To: seatrout

Derbyshire has every right to be wrong, as he is in this case.


4 posted on 03/04/2009 6:43:31 AM PST by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: seatrout

Derbyshire—all the more reason to barf.


5 posted on 03/04/2009 6:44:06 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Where do I sign up for jewelry stamps?)
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To: KeyLargo

High-brow, intelligent guy from UK. Conservative principles are better expressed by other folks at NR, like Ponnoru or Goldberg.


6 posted on 03/04/2009 6:46:11 AM PST by HoosierHawk (Democrats - Looting American citizens for generations to come.)
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To: seatrout
It is easy to mock the studied gentility, affectless voices, and reflexive liberalism of NPR, but these are very successful radio programs.

Does this mean they don't need my tax dollars anymore?

7 posted on 03/04/2009 6:46:19 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Selah)
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Conservatives have never had, and never should have, a problem with elitism.

Oh so wrong.

8 posted on 03/04/2009 6:49:39 AM PST by relictele
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"It is easy to mock the studied gentility, affectless voices, and reflexive liberalism of NPR, but these are very successful radio programs."

Who is this bozo? NPR isn't the least bit "successful" in any free market sense of the word: it would collapse as quickly as Air America were it not subsidized by the government.

9 posted on 03/04/2009 6:50:02 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: seatrout

I liked Ron Paul’s comment on MSNBC yesterday “Rush (like Hannity and Levin) worshipped GWB”, although Rush has backed off a bit and doesnt talk about him anymore now.


10 posted on 03/04/2009 6:51:20 AM PST by sickoflibs (Keynesian Eco 101 : "If you won't spend your money WE WILL, and your kid's too!")
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To: seatrout

I am not convinced that Derb is entirely on our side.


11 posted on 03/04/2009 6:52:43 AM PST by Aloysius88 (Interesting times, indeed.)
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To: KeyLargo

He often writes for National Review. I think he’s actually a medical doctor, but I could be misremembering.


12 posted on 03/04/2009 6:57:39 AM PST by brytlea (Proud descendent of Andrew Kent, Alamo Defender)
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To: seatrout; holdonnow

Mark Levin smacked this doofus down last night.


13 posted on 03/04/2009 6:57:45 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: seatrout

Yet another nitwit falls for the left’s propaganda about Rush, feeling that he, the writer, has to distance himself from what the left considers “lowbrow”.
BTW, didn’t the mentioned Chris Buckley vote for the 0? Doesn’t appear that he knew his father all that well. Come to think of it, it doesn’t appear he knows much of anything, save possibly how to spend dad’s money.


14 posted on 03/04/2009 7:00:15 AM PST by synchron
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Congressional Republicans lost their chance when they were in power by thinking they had to spend like Democrats to maintain power. That only works for Democrats because they have conditioned their base to expect to get Other Peoples Money. If Conservatives in Congress don’t get this message (and they haven’t with 40% of earmarks) then it’s going to take a long time to fix a system that rewards those who don’t deserve it and bankrupts this country.


15 posted on 03/04/2009 7:00:39 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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NR and most of those that write for it are liberals... the left owns this hack... is he gay?

LLS


16 posted on 03/04/2009 7:00:59 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: seatrout
There is a lowbrow liberalism, too, but the Left hasn’t learned how to market it.

Umm, how about...

"Yes we can ... raise taxes on the rich ... hope ... change..."

17 posted on 03/04/2009 7:01:33 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (Government employment exists to provide a middle class lifestyle to otherwise, unemployable people)
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NPR successful? A weekly radio program subsidized with tax dollars deemed successful by a so-called conservative.........wow. I’ll agree Savage is a jerk. Mark Levin can be harsh, but he is also a brilliant constitutional scholar. Rush is an articulate spokesman for the conservative cause...and a jokester. Hannity is more of the everyman. What this guy forgets is “highbrow” conservatism spent 50 years in the minority. It took a plain spoken Ronald Reagan to get the message to the people. This sort of ripping the conservative talk show hosts does the cause no good.


18 posted on 03/04/2009 7:01:40 AM PST by conservativemusician (Arm yourself.)
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To: seatrout

The author is now on my ENEMY OF FREEDOM list... screw him and his left leaning horse!!!

LLS


19 posted on 03/04/2009 7:02:13 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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“WFB’s son Christopher retorted, “Rush, I knew William F. Buckley, Jr. William F. Buckley, Jr. was a father of mine. Rush, you’re no William F. Buckley, Jr.””

Dear Christopher: Rush never claimed to be the equal to your father. His opinion of your father seems to be too high for him to comfortably ever make such a claim for himself. And another thing, Christopher: If your father was going to cop a line as a put down from someone else he might have done it with irony or humor enough to make the thought fresh and the reader smile. If you're thinking of being a ‘chip off the ol’ block’, Christopher, OWN your words.

Ah hell, what can you expect from a guy who endorsed Obugger.

20 posted on 03/04/2009 7:03:00 AM PST by TalBlack
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