[CharlesWayneCT]

But the antidote is to politely, but steadily point this out—the constant distortions, hypocrisies, and contradictions —without resorting to slurs and smears. If conservatives can stay cheery, optimistic and reasoned, the Obamians, as all fallen prophets, will become angrier, more self-righteous, and incoherent. There is no need for conspiracy theories, to banish the moderate conservatives, or to cannibalize one another; instead the Obama record is out there for all to see and examine.

Just wanted to repeat that for emphasis. It seems to be something that is controversal these days.

[Tolik]

What we see is not something that just started. It’s how the culture evolved. Left-stream-media feeds it and of it. How many times did we see a TV camera zooming into somebody screaming the lungs off with a sympathetic comment exploring the outrage, and absolutely not interested to zoom into people discussing without killing each other. If you are outraged, then you must have reasons, so you are right. If you are not outraged, then well, we are not interested in your story.
Who screams the loudest, gets noticed.

“If it bleeds, it leads” - isn’t it a favored expression of the news editors?

To support this with recent examples: the left was in a permanently outraged mode the whole 8 years, with sympathetic coverage by the left-stream-media.

Enemies of the West borrowed this Leftist trick and exploit it very well. Let’s look at the Israel’s struggles, for examples. Exaggerated claims of massacres are instantly on the front pages, debunking gets buried deep down, if it even published. Cooperation between Arabs and Jews in the daily life is not interesting neither.
Or lets take all publicity and daily count of American casualties in Iraq. When they got greatly reduced - where is the news? All the construction and cooperation between Iraqi and Americans - no news there neither.

And back to Joe Wilson. As much as I think that it goes contra the American tradition of decorum when the President speaks, and as much as I don’t want to see President Palin’s speech being interrupted every 10 seconds, I should point out, that no alternative action by the congressman would’ve concentrated the debate and been so effective as his outburst. Sad, isn’t it? So, I can’t fault him too much. Accidentally (I don’t think he was so shrewd to calculate this), he advanced the cause of highlighting Obama’s lies like nothing else would.

My conclusion. I don’t want conservatives to be a party of permanently outraged as the left did. Long-term its not conductive. But exceptions from the rule - and its very important: as long as they stay exceptions - can be a good tool.