There Are No Conservatives Worth Following on Social Media

SF Weekly ^ | Tue., Sep. 11 2012 | Dan Mitchell

[showme_the_Glory]

I completely agree. Mark Steyn is very sharp and witty.

[bronxville]

And the people aren’t buying it. Even the Daily News, NYC, which slants left, wrote about their shenanigans. They’re slowly but surely being exposed for the little wimps they are...Greta had a couple on last night, one from ABC, and the other from ?Newsweek or Time along with a “neoconservative” who was as bad as them. They all appeared to speak logically and tolerantly but the hidden agenda couldn’t be hidden. Iin general they believe we’re fools. They couldn’t be more wrong.

One of the people I over heard was on the street and later heard him on the same topic in CVS. He was mad as hell.

[Paradox]

Yes, I tend to agree with them more than I do with conservatives

People simply dont understand how biased they are. The author does say this, and it is a start, he never comes to grips with his bias. His bias is what determines whom he considers a "good" conservative.

You just can't do it. Conservatives have a bias, but we can admit it to ourselves. Liberals have this notion that they can rise above their own biases, which they really cant.

[heartwood]

I read blogs. I have never seen Twitter worth following. People who think their every tossed-off little thought and smart remark is worth sharing.

Facebook - why fill it up with chaff? Why friend a stranger when there are enough real friends who want to share their politics or something they read (which can make it hard to be friends sometimes.)

[af_vet_rr]

Social media has the ability to bring us the "serendipity" that was supposedly lost with the advent of new media. Critics of new media warn that we're all encasing ourselves in our own little bubbles, paying attention only to people with whom we already agree. My own experience is just the opposite: I see a lot more different stuff now than I did when all I had was print and broadcast news.

I feel the same way - moving away from the MSM liberal print and TV "journalists" (including Fox News), I've been able to hear about and read stories that the MSM won't cover, or I've been able to see angles that they won't show.

The internet has been one of the best things to happen to the Conservative movement. It's broken the monopoly on the flow of news and information that the liberals held.

[tomkat]

  'social media'              

[subterfuge]

Ha, ha! I could only make it through a para or two...

[Republic Rocker]

Larry Elder on facebook!

[Forward the Light Brigade]

I believe Breitbart Page—best news—Hot Air isn’t half bad—Fox News is spotty—some good—some bad.

[LibLieSlayer]

Well danny boy...

When you worship satan and believe trotsky and lenin... when engels and marx are your heroes and you spend your time on social sites and porn sites while eating Cheetos and suffering from an orange penis... the truth probably does sound radical and insane. I can assure you lefty... it is you that are insane and damned.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

One cannot lose control of the truth. If the media were about the truth... no one could “snag” it away.

LLS

[SuziQ]

I really, really want to follow conservatives on social media, but I can't, because they're nearly all hacks now.

And I'm sure the writer thinks all liberals on social media are brilliant original thinkers.