'South Park Conservatives': Bullying Liberals Back

NY Times ^ | 26 June 2005 | LIESL SCHILLINGER

[Lorianne]

IN a well-known spoof of a typical talk-radio exchange, two callers debate a fatuous point. The first says: ''Right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up with this country being sick and tired. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.'' The second caller retorts, ''Well, I meet a lot of people, and I'm convinced that the vast majority of wrong-thinking people are right.'' A conservative housewife, listening to the blather, snaps, ''Liberal rubbish!'' and turns the dial. It's a shining example of what, in a country with a less sophisticated sense of humor, might be called Monty Python Toryism.

In ''South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias,'' Brian C. Anderson, charts the rise in respectability -- or, at least, of visibility and audibility -- of ''proudly anti-elitist'' right-wing thought in America's public dialogue over the last two decades, a development that was spearheaded by Rush Limbaugh in the late 1980's on talk radio and has since spread to other media in a process Anderson calls ''FOXification.'' To him, the popularity of the stingingly anti-P.C. cartoon series ''South Park'' signals the advent of a new generation of Americans who refuse to accept public censure for their scornful attitudes toward gay men and lesbians, Native Americans, environmentalism and abortion rights. In an effort not to gloat, he cloaks his descriptions of this triumph in the humble fleece of the common man (Limbaugh is, for example ''a college dropout'' who ''had put himself through a rigorous self-education, mastering an array of issues'') and champions talk radio as ''the first media forum in which ordinary Joes can actually get a hearing for their complaints about what liberals have wrought in America since the 1960's.''

[MarkL]

I'm tired of "college dropout" being used as a slur when you have Ivy League educated MORONS like John Kerry destroying America and university-educated sycophant "journalists" like Katie Couric lapping up socialist bile and acting as shills and transcription services for their leftist brethren.

Sime of the dumbest (least intelligent) people I ever met, I met while I was in college! And as best I can tell, most of them graduated (although I never did). College didn't make them any smarter (more intelligent), but "better educated!"

Mark

[byablue]

they'll be foaming and clattering about the "stolen" 2000 and 2004 elections

Had Supreme Court ruled the other way it would have been "praise for the courage of our independent judiciary!" Ridiculous how decades of liberally-biased rulings are "independent" but demands for an originalist application of the Consitution is "ideological bias." Prog-Lib-Dems think us American citizens who only work for a living are too stupid to recognize that.

[rdb3]

And they will be at it for 20 more years.

Right. And God willing, Rush will still be around 20 years from now giving them something to yammer about.

[King Prout]

okers! it's up.

[spinestein]

[how did "Native Americans" get thrown into the mix?]

[..."Holy Sites" that are claimed when somebody tries to build in otherwise ignored areas....]


I have some friends who are Ojibwa Indians (they refuse to call themselves Native Americans) and they told me that one day in the late 90's a whole bunch of "Native Americans" showed up in the town of La Pointe followed by a bunch of TV cameras from the networks to protest the desecration of one of their "sacred burial grounds".

The cemetery they were referring to was a small plot adjacent to the marina that the town kept mowed and repaired. Occasionally, tourists would stop and take pictures. I lived about a block from the site and never saw a single Indian there because it wasn't something the local Indians cared about.

Because of the rent-a-mob staged protest, the state of Wisconsin made the site off limits to the public and put up a fence around it. Now the cemetery and its wooden structures and old tombstones are overgrown with vegetation and it's deteriorating quickly. My Indian friends told me they have no idea who the protesters were who were passing themselves off as "local Native Americans".

[PROTESTBYPROXY]

I am a Native, I was born here!

[PROTESTBYPROXY]

2 year olds!

[postaldave]

how DID the Native Americans get in there? my favorite bumpersticker reads "sure you can trust the government, just ask an indian".

i can't speak for everyone in the SPC group but i think the indians are a shinning example as to the "why i hate big government"

the government neads to stay out of my life and let the indians do whatever the hell they want with whatever piece crap land we left them. it's the least we(they) can do.

just my thoughts.