Thank you for the explanation. That is a choice they made which I presume they have made peace with.
In my naivety I don’t see being a kept person as much of a defense but perhaps I have been lucky. I’m not much for unions either...
Once you sell yourself what more do you have left to sell.
[Thank you for the explanation. That is a choice they made which I presume they have made peace with.
In my naivety I don’t see being a kept person as much of a defense but perhaps I have been lucky. I’m not much for unions either...
Once you sell yourself what more do you have left to sell.]
What are you going to do to pay your bills, at a time when your law school peers made partner long ago, and you’re not exactly welcome on corporate boards or many big companies because of your widely-publicized apostasy from the widely-accepted positions of the day. Look at what just happened to Steve King, who was primaried from his Iowa House seat because he suggested that white nationalists were no worse than black or other kinds of nationalists.
Bottom line is that right-wing media pundits have to walk a fine line. On black issues, don’t expect anything resembling candor, unless that pundit is a black conservative, and even then it’s not clear that they really have a blank check. But being non-black and on the wrong side of that line is a literal career killer.
There’s also the fact that if these right-wing pundits don’t play the inept foil to the left within the liberal media, others will gladly do so. Don’t think of them as thought leaders - think of them as designated villains in the typical Hollywood media production.
Tom Cruise routinely decks, with one punch, the nondescript but really tough-looking villains in his movie productions. These disposable bad guys are typically played by extremely competent people who double up as stuntmen. They probably taught Cruise how to pantomime every single move he makes in the movie. You don’t really think Cruise can actually knock out even *one* of these men, do you?
Conservative pundits syndicated in liberal media outlets are like these movie villains. They routinely concede points they shouldn’t have to, merely to stay employed. Imagine if a stuntman playing a movie villain decided to fight Tom Cruise for real, and knocked him out. That would make the stuntman unemployable in the industry.