Who is Andrew klavan?
And even if he's a moderate (as some are who write at pajamas media) his exposition also exposes those in the GOP who have done and continue to do the same thing -- attack those who disagree with them in the hopes of getting principled conservatives to shut up.
Several of you had bits and pieces of the picture, so I have pinged you to fill you in on the rest.
From http://pajamasmedia.com/andrewklavan/2009/02/18/welcome/
Hello. Welcome to my new blog, Klavan on the Culture. It’s a companion piece to some commentaries by the same name I’ll be doing on PJTV. I hope you’ll tune in to see them.
For the last forty years, we conservatives have allowed the left to monopolize the culture. Partly, sure, that’s because the left excludes and blacklists conservative artists. But it’s also due to our own neglect, philistinism and old-fogey-ositude. Whatever the causes, though, movies, television, literature, music, mainstream news, liberal arts courses in universities—all the bastions of cultural power are in the hands of leftist rascals, fools and clowns. Their relativist, anti-liberty, anti-faith creed is a slow poison dripping into the American consciousness. It’s the same poison that has sapped the vitality of Europe since World War II, that nearly allowed Soviet tyranny to triumph in the seventies, that has so befuddled our intellectual elites that they often side with murderers and thugs over free, democratic states and that has now elevated an empty hologram of a man to the highest office in our land.
I’ve been waging my own little battle against this state of affairs with as much creativity and hilarity as I can muster. I’ve done it in my novels—go over to Amazon and buy yourself a copy of Empire of Lies and you’ll see what I mean—in my writings at City Journal, in interviews like this 5-parter with Peter Robinson over at Uncommon Knowledge, and in blogs like AndrewKlavan.com and Big Hollywood. Now I’ll continue the fight here and on PJTV.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: We can win back the presidency, the congress and the supreme court, but if we lose the culture, we ultimately lose the country. I know we’re conservatives. I know we’re naturally better at creating civilizations, building businesses, raising children, running governments and praising God than doing the really important stuff like telling stories, cracking jokes and singing songs. But the trumpets of destiny summon us to a new battlefield! We must fight them in the movies, we must fight them in the novels, we must fight them in the music videos. We must never surrender!
Whatever. You get the picture. Here I am.