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VONSCHLOEGEL, did your mother ever tell you that unless you have something productive to say, shut it? Or, was she just as negative as you are?

(1) I am not saying that conservatives in general believe in banning books. Far from it, most conservatives believe in personal freedom and tend to be tolerant of all views. Book banning, speech codes, and groupthinking are liberal diseases. In fact, modern liberalism is far less tolerant of differing views than Hollywood’s cliche of the 15th Century Catholic Church. “Don’t believe in the Almighty Global Warning? Well, Copernicus, thou shall’t be terminated and blacklisted from the field of science…”

(2) That said, unlike liberals, the media lumps conservatives together with any fringe idiot the media can find. It’s unfair, but that’s life. What this means, is that we need to be much more vocal about disassociating ourselves from these idiots.

(3) And idiots there are. There have been a great many demands by self-described conservatives to ban or limit one thing or another. Sometimes they seek outright bans, sometimes they want the FCC to punish, sometimes they propose boycotts, etc. They never succeed, except in making us look intolerant and stupid. Examples: dungeons and dragons leads kids to satan, Harry Potter promotes witchcraft, the Simpsons promote disrespect to parents and teachers, OMG you could see Janet Jackson’s breast if I froze the picture and went frame by frame, “pro-homosexual material” should not be distributed in public libraries, etc. etc. Conservative grassroots groups routinely work together to get porn shops banned (through clever zoning), keep certain books from school and public libraries, and organize boycotts of certain films.

This stuff is garbage, let it fail on its own lack of merits!

More disturbingly, “conservative” politicians routinely stir up their base with attacks on elements of popular culture, with the implicit (or explicit) idea that a vote for them will result in an end to such garbage. Murphy Brown anyone? Even Al Gore played that game — record labels, WTF? This blows back on all of us. When you speak up about the culture, how long does it take for someone to accuse you of being a disciple of Dan Quayle?

(4) Finally, please don’t get lost in the example. Book banning is an extreme example but there are many smaller examples. When I was in college, I studied with a bunch of conservatives who went on to work on Capital Hill. These kids sat around bragging about not owning televisions or going to movies — they were actually proud of sticking their heads in the sand!

Likewise, many of the conservatives I know at work today will tell anyone who listens that they won’t be caught dead watching “that highbrow crap.”

But this is no solution. Conservatives need to learn to participate in the culture, to shape it, to build it, not hide from it. Hiding from the culture is like sticking your head in the sand to avoid the tide. That’s why I’m so happy to see guys like Mike Wilson, who, in my opion, get it.

“Michael Wilson Hates Sex with Women?”

As expected, I have found that nearly everyone I meet – including my own below-the-line staff – are doctinaire leftists. But here’s the surprise: even the most vocal of them show a surprising lack of conviction in their own beliefs – and, surprisingly, they usually are the first to admit it.

A couple of months ago I found myself in Manhattan with half a day to kill – with one crew member who also didn’t have anything specific to do until our gang met up again for the flight out of town. As luck would have it, he was about the most bitter lefty I had ever met – told me that conservatives were stupid, and they were destroying civilization.

He was particularly interested in the WTC site, so I took him there. We discussed the war, the nature of armed conflict, and American military history in general. The guy told me that he knew that he had been exposed to only one point of view for years. By the end of the afternoon, he asked for a reading list. I sent him a Christmas gift: Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism.”

I am learning that there are many industry people out there who are willing to open their minds – and I’ve heard over and over that they don’t know exactly where to turn. They’ve been told that Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilley (who they believe does nothing but scream and yell) represent the entire wealth of modern conservative thought.

This town can (and will) change.

The only book bannings I can recall being pushed were mostly by small grass-roots organizations on a very local level. To say that conservatives push for book bannings would be to fall for the left-wing trap of “They’re evil and they’re taking your rights from you! See the Patriot act!” sort of thing.

Weird, but I should have known since Shipman wrote the story. He’s awful and seems unable to write anything without a manufactured ‘hit’