Lonewolf Diaries: ‘Time Magazine’ Poll Proves Celebrity Has Influence
by Steven CrowderSo the 2010 Time Magazine 100 Poll is out, and all of you Conservatives out there should be paying attention. Take a gander at the top 25. Notice anything in particular? Where are the local district representatives? Where are the long-standing politicians and Republican strategists that we see time and time again on our cable news networks? SPOILER ALERT: Nowhere.
I’ll bet you didn’t see that one coming, did you GOP’ers?
In response to my recent column on James Cameron, somebody wrote me:
Who cares about James Cameron? … If people spent half the time reading about their local politicians and congressional reps as they do about the Hollywood elite, this country would be a thousand times better off.
Both unfortunately and importantly, the man speaks the truth. Even more sadly however, is the response that he would receive from most of mainstream America; “So what?”
Would the world be better off if Americans cared more about their local government? Probably? Do they? No.
Having faced that reality, Conservatives need to stop trying to force people to take part in a world for which they have no interest. Conservatives should instead focus on firmly planting their flag in the territory that is the American cultural landscape.
The fact of the matter is that most Americans don’t care about their local representatives nor the 48th district race of Michigan. Most would sooner read Lady Gaga’s opinions concerning seal-clubbing in the Yukon Territories or listen to Justin Bieber extol the virtues of Invisalign.
The fact of the matter is that to most Americans, politicians (particularly the “hackish” variety) are boring. Everything about the whole line of work is dull. The policy talk is boring, the banquets are boring, the Men’s Wearhouse suits are boring and even the sex scandals have slowed to a lull.
On the flip-side, even if a celebrity is inarticulate and unlikable (basically, Sean Penn), they still have a trump card seated firmly in their back-pocket in being a celebrity.
It’s not a fact that we’re proud of as Americans, but we have a strange fascination with Tinseltown. Perhaps it’s due to years of glamorization and shiny packaging or maybe it’s just because Americans want to live vicariously through Lohan’s latest coke-bender. The fact remains, that the industry as a whole maintains a huge influence over the American people, and it’s an industry that Conservatives have ignored for far too long.
Let me put it for you this way; Robert Downey Jr., with one Tweet could hold more influence over the culture than the Karl Rove/Newt Gingrich/Dick Morris superfriends combined.
Barack Obama understands this all too well. Obama “the politician” was never elected. Obama “the celebrity” was. He gets it… When will conservatives?
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This kind of stuff makes me wonder how many Conservatives became Conservative when they discovered that everything they were told in their 'liberal phase' was a lie.
One of the bigger lies I was told, repeatedly, was that the reason Democrats always had trouble winning is because they're "too lofty". They refuse to get "down and dirty" like those evil Republicans. And as usual, this is exactly the opposite of reality.
We definitely need to get "down and dirty" and get involved in the popular culture. Thinking that this is beneath us is a path to suicide. Of course it will be hard – rebellion is always the easy sell, even when it's rebelling through conformity – but it's necessary.
Maybe the celebrity aspect explains why so many people are enthralled with Sarah Palin in spite of the fact that she's obviously not very bright. Not saying she's dumber than any number of Democrats – including our current vice president – but just because you think Obama succeeded because he "gets it" doesn't mean that it is necessarily something worth emulating.
it is after all, the Henry Luce Time top 100 list…
TIME is a Progressive propaganda fishwrap, as was the late, and unlamented NEWSWEEK (yes, they are going bankrupt thanks to Communists like Jonathan Alter) and, as such, is only of real meaning in those circles. Yes, they DID acknowledge Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin- they really couldn't ignore them- and McChrystal and a few others. But for the most part it was a who's who of the Progressive Left.
None of which who could presently be elected dogcatcher. Notice David Obey, a particularly nasty, partisan left wing Democrat- head of the very powerful appropriations committee- just 'retired'. True to form he lied his way out of the job as well- claiming he was 'tired'- but 'could have won easily'.
Against a very conservative candidate- a former 'Survivor' reality show member too boot- who was pinning his ears back in polls, Obey instead will take the campaign money he is sitting on and run with it. Don't let anyone kid you about the Dem's chances in November.
THIS one stings…
This kind of stuff makes me wonder how many Conservatives became Conservative when they discovered that everything they were told in their 'liberal phase' was a lie.
I bet this number would be high. I was raised by liberals and it wasn't until I was in my 20's (not coincidentally I was finished with college by that time) the the light bulb just went off one day. It hit me, literally in one fell swoop, that liberalism was bogus. That big government wasn't the answer and that my parents, like most libs, were reactionary rather than logical– emotional decision making at it's best. It's like the shroud from my childhood was lifted and I could see in color again. Maybe that's melodramatic, but that's how it felt. My brothers' are just like me too– all vote conservative and even call my parents to let them know they've canceled out their votes!
We've tried to get through to my parents– but like most entrenched libs they won't listen to counter argument. It's like they put their fingers in their ears and shout la la la I can't hear you…
The flawed premise here is that the readers of the liberal time magazine are a representative sample of americans. In my own life, have never been engaged in a discussion that arose from a celebrity act. Politicians do get discussed. You guys who are part of the industry never have the privilege of seeing how little interest it holds to most of us.
I've been watching Mrs. Palin since she first hit the national stage with McCain. And despite every one on the left insisting she's an idiot, I have yet to see any evidence of that.
The interview with Couric was not only rigged, it was also edited to death. Some one over CBS released some of the edited out exerts on youtube. but I doubt they're still there. They showed her doing quite well under the Perky One's withering assault.
Asking her to list Supreme Court decisions that her and McCain disagree on is a ludicrous question, it assumes she's read every press release McCain's made on Supreme Court decisions.
Being governor of a state, in my opinion, is not easy. I certainly couldn't do it. Could you?
I'm still waiting for proof that Palin's not as bright as the liberal talking points say she is. Every time someone gives me a quote of something they believe she said, I can show them that it was a quote directly from Saturday Night Live and not anything she actually said. So much about her supposed lack of intelligence is urban legend based on something that Chris Matthews or Keith Olberman THINKS she said or believes. I can show more proof that Obama is not as bright as most liberals think HE is.
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I respectfully disagree with you Mr. Crowder.
While there's no doubt a significant number of Americans are mired in the muck of the celebrity, I don't believe its anywhere near the majority of Americans.
I believe the vast majority of Americans are simply hard working individuals, busy running their lives, doing their jobs, raising their families, attending their churches, supporting the communities. What they do day in and day out effects their immediate lives infinitely more than what politicians in far off cities do. They're simply busy.
Only on the rarest of occasions do we see shift their gaze to national politics, not because they don't care, but because they have so much else to do. The last time I saw it happen was on 9/11 and its aftermath.
I can't say whether or not tea parties represent this rare occurrence or not, but it certainly feels like it. And if it is, every politician in every elected office across the nation better start worrying, because when the great silent middle America puts its mind to something, things happen.
Ask the Germans and the Japanese about that.
I'm not saying she's an idiot of the magnitude the lying left has tried to suggest she is since day one. I mean it took something approaching mental illness to attack her on such grounds when Joe Biden is so stupid that people are conditioned to smile and pat him on the head like a special needs child when he says something ridiculous. But think about what you're saying … you saw outtakes from an interview a year and a half ago where she looked smart? I was in the same place a year and a half ago. But you reach a point where it gets tiring defending someone who has still shown you NOTHING and you also start wondering about the intelligence of people who persist in taking her seriously. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat as gov or senator if I lived in Alaska, I'm just saying she is not presidential material.
I prefer the term "cult of personality" over celebrity when referring to politics. Celebrities get attention for outrageous behavior and outrageous statements. When a celebrity says something arcane or common, it doesn't seem to register as much. How many who may have casually or quietly extolled the virtues of Obama prior to the election got much notice? The ones who made wildly partisan statements, especially when critical of conservatives, Republicans, etc., got much more attention.
The cult of personality, on the other hand, gets attention even for non-celebrities. In my view, it is what explains the near-fawning love affair with all things Obama (prior to taking office), Palin, Hannity, or even Breitbart. People become enamored for different reasons, but to me it has more to do with the charisma of the person and their message than their celebrity. The proof often lies in the fall from grace that some in the cult may experience whenever they either change their positions or misspeak, etc. Celebrities on the other hand can muck-up things as often as humanly possible and still maintain their "celebrity". Of course, I don't know many people who take celebrities seriously, or listen very closely, whenever they speak about topics where they don't know much. But I guess they are out there to a degree. Celebrity helps – however it isn't everything. I doubt Oprah could have helped Hillary as much as she did Obama. She added to the cult of personality with her celebrity.
"This kind of stuff makes me wonder how many Conservatives became Conservative when they discovered that everything they were told in their 'liberal phase' was a lie."
I sure as hell did. I was raised in the Liberal San Francisco Bay Area. As an adult I began to see through all of the Liberal b.s. and lies and realized everything they claim is the exact opposite. I LOVE the Bay Area, but I'm sick of the kooks out here-regular citizens and politicians-and I can't wait to get the hell out of this state. I'm currently looking for a home in Texas. I'll be damned if I have to raise my kids in this madness.
I live in Cali too– though more toward Sacramento– and dream of leaving the state.
No doubt, the same people who are influenced by celebrities are the same people who subscribe to TIME and take their polls.
The progressives have mastered the power of presentation; witness the dog and pony show leading up to the election of Mr. Obama. Doesn't matter that he was an empty suit but that the suit was made of gold, proving once again people like and will pay for the shine. "What fools we be when our eyes are deceived."
She was right about:
–Death panels
–Budget deficits
–Iran nukes
–Unconstitutional laws by Obama
–immigration
And, Palin shoots an assault rifle like a Navy Seal, while Obama throws a baseball like a girl.
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Obama did not fool many, but the ones he fooled would not listen. Rush Limbaugh called him a cargo culter, and I think that fits Obama's world view to the real world and how things work.
A Cargo Culter is a primitive on the pacific islands who thought the planes that brought canned food and stuff during WWII were gods and they worshiped them. After the war, they built and worshiped bamboo airplanes to make them come back and make more free stuff appear.
Obama is like that with the free market system. He doesn't know how it works, and thinks all he has to do is go through the motions to make the good stuff appear again so he can redistribute it to his fellow worshipers.
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I'm with you, Steven, but I fear even the editor of this blog isn't. Though there are guys & gals like you contributing here, John Nolte and a slew of others are so double-minded that the mission of this site — to reclaim the culture — amounts to mere patriotism and lower taxation. (See the recommendations for KICK A$$, Parenthood, and Modern Family to name a few.) Small government is desirable, but it has little affect on the culture if we don't come to understand what you have written.
Lower taxes and patriotism will be meaningless unless the cultural foundation is restored, and such matters won't make one iota of difference in an ever-increasingly debased society. To borrow from Carville: It's the CULTURE, stupid!"
This kind of stuff makes me wonder how many Conservatives became Conservative when they discovered that everything they were told in their 'liberal phase' was a lie.
One of the bigger lies I was told, repeatedly, was that the reason Democrats always had trouble winning is because they're "too lofty". They refuse to get "down and dirty" like those evil Republicans. And as usual, this is exactly the opposite of reality.
We definitely need to get "down and dirty" and get involved in the popular culture. Thinking that this is beneath us is a path to suicide. Of course it will be hard – rebellion is always the easy sell, even when it's rebelling through conformity – but it's necessary.
it is after all, the Henry Luce Time top 100 list…
TIME is a Progressive propaganda fishwrap, as was the late, and unlamented NEWSWEEK (yes, they are going bankrupt thanks to Communists like Jonathan Alter) and, as such, is only of real meaning in those circles. Yes, they DID acknowledge Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin- they really couldn't ignore them- and McChrystal and a few others. But for the most part it was a who's who of the Progressive Left.
None of which who could presently be elected dogcatcher. Notice David Obey, a particularly nasty, partisan left wing Democrat- head of the very powerful appropriations committee- just 'retired'. True to form he lied his way out of the job as well- claiming he was 'tired'- but 'could have won easily'.
Against a very conservative candidate- a former 'Survivor' reality show member too boot- who was pinning his ears back in polls, Obey instead will take the campaign money he is sitting on and run with it. Don't let anyone kid you about the Dem's chances in November.
THIS one stings…
I have heard sheeple say she's not bright, but I have never seen evidence to that effect. Needless to say, those that mindlessly pass on slogans do not appear very bright to me.
That poll is a mess. It doesn't demonstrate anything other than the weakness of internet surveys. People may be more influenced by Lady Gaga than by Paul Ryan, I don't know. But they'll definitely click a button next to a picture of Lady Gaga more than one of Paul Ryan, and we already knew that.
I respectfully disagree with you Mr. Crowder.
While there's no doubt a significant number of Americans are mired in the muck of the celebrity, I don't believe its anywhere near the majority of Americans.
I believe the vast majority of Americans are simply hard working individuals, busy running their lives, doing their jobs, raising their families, attending their churches, supporting the communities. What they do day in and day out effects their immediate lives infinitely more than what politicians in far off cities do. They're simply busy.
Only on the rarest of occasions do we see shift their gaze to national politics, not because they don't care, but because they have so much else to do. The last time I saw it happen was on 9/11 and its aftermath.
I can't say whether or not tea parties represent this rare occurrence or not, but it certainly feels like it. And if it is, every politician in every elected office across the nation better start worrying, because when the great silent middle America puts its mind to something, things happen.
Ask the Germans and the Japanese about that.
"Conservatives" will never engage the culture until they stop being AT WAR WITH IT.
ACTUAL conservative, small-gov, low-tax, individual-first philosophy will never die, and will frequently thrive. But for what passes as "conservative" now – the worthless mongrel organism known as the "social right" – the writing is on the wall: It's circling the drain alongside the used-up superstitions it's values are drawn from. American conservatives can either unshackle themselves soon, or be dragged down with it and DISSAPEAR, possibly for a generation or more.
Political movements are not fraternity pledges – they can't split the day evenly between two different worlds, they need to SLEEP at some point. A political movement can either be at the party (i.e. where all of the vital connections and relationships are made) on Saturday night…. OR in Church on Sunday morning – not both.
AtheistCon, you are exactly right. My name is ladykrystyna and I am a former liberal! LOL!
Seriously, it was about lies. Probably the one that really hit me was the Free Speech one that Stossel did a show on many a year ago. At that time, I decided that I was probably still a liberal, but a moderate one.
But little by little, I saw what they were really like. It was really like a "born again" experience, I guess, since I'm not born again, but it sure felt like the scales had fallen from my eyes and that I had seen the light. Things are so much clearer now, like I've been taken out of the Matrix!
While you might not have been raised on a commune (I hope not), there's a new movie coming out about the horror that liberalism is, and the damage it does to children called HAPPINESS RUNS:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhHs4oE35I
It's autobiographical, about the commune that writer-director Adam Sherman was raised on — and escaped from — told as a kind of a psychological thriller.
I once heard (on another site) that someone thought Palin was an idiot because she was pro-life and wanted abortion to be illegal even to rape and incest victims… Yeah. There was another reason that the person gave. It was something about something stupid Palin said one time, but that was it. Those were the only reasons why they thought she was an idiot. I'm pro-life and I've said stupid stuff before. I guess I'm an idiot too, according to their standards.
I once heard (on another site) that someone thought Palin was an idiot because she was pro-life and wanted abortion to be illegal even to rape and incest victims… Yeah. There was another reason that the person gave. It was something about something stupid Palin said one time, but that was it. Those were the only reasons why they thought she was an idiot. I'm pro-life and I've said stupid stuff before. I guess I'm an idiot too, according to their standards.
No, no communes. Thank God! Can you imagine? I actually know someone who was raised on one. She's still kind of flaky (wants her fiance to take her last name because it's "prettier") but she's mostly rejected the strange values she was raised on. She was named something silly, like Rainbow, but changed her name once she got older and has a normal job, normal life now. I'm not sure what her family relationships are like, okay as far as I know. But it must have been weird integrating back into the real world after that kind up upbringing.
No, no communes. Thank God! Can you imagine? I actually know someone who was raised on one. She's still kind of flaky (wants her fiance to take her last name because it's "prettier") but she's mostly rejected the strange values she was raised on. She was named something silly, like Rainbow, but changed her name once she got older and has a normal job, normal life now. I'm not sure what her family relationships are like, okay as far as I know. But it must have been weird integrating back into the real world after that kind up upbringing.
She said that she had "foreign policy experience" because of the proximity of Alaska to Russia. She couldn't name any Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe v. Wade. She talked about "Putin rearing his head into the airspace." She speaks in run-on, word-salad sentences just like that Miss Teen USA from South Carolina. She has no depth of knowledge, only talking points like "drill, baby, drill," "you lose, we win," etc. She winks at the camera like an idiot.
President Obama graduated from Harvard Law. Based on Palin's performances, I don't think there is any way that she would graduate from Harvard Law.
She didn't have to list Supreme Court decisions that McCain disagreed with. She was asked what Supreme Court decisions other than Roe v. Wade that she disagreed with. The stupidest thing she said was that she had foreign policy experience because of the proximity of Russia to Alaska.
It's funny that I instigated this line of commentary yet all it takes is an idiotic comment from someone on the left and I'm ready to send Palin money. Yes, she cited the proximity of Alaska to Russia, – as opposed to the lie perpetuated by the left that she said she could see Russia from her house. Obama referred to his early childhood in Indonesia as foreign policy "experience." Bush referenced the border with Mexico. Hillary made up some bullcrap about having been under fire in the Baltics. It's about as obligatory among politicians without an FP resume as it is for girls who go to bed with you quickly to say they "never do this." But lefties aren't about honesty, they're about narratives. At least the cynical ones, anyway. You may just be a low information parrot.
Obama is the only editor of any ivy league law review, in the history of all the ivy leagues, to have never written a paper. Obama was also initially turned down for a position at the U of Chicago because he didn't know anything. But a phone call from somebody on the board of trustees demanded he be given a paycheck — so he lectured on Alinsky part time as a guest lecturer. John Lott and others there have said he was cocky and lazy, didn't know much, and didn't care because he knew he was going to be doing politics and was just there for his resume. Obama has had no real job in the free market system, and neither has 93% of his entire WH staff.
Palin was right about death panels (Orzag), budget deficits, HC bill costs, and Obama being a sociaIist. She's not yet ready to be president, but neither is Obama. Greece is burning and he's taking us down the same broken path.
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Me! (raises hand) I was just like that. When one liberal lie was exposed to me, it made me start to question all the other things I'd always believe. That questioning led me to seek my own information. That information led me to seek "alternative" points of view on the subjects. Those alternate views ultimately led me to realize that my positions had never been based on actual fact and reason. I finally admitted I was a conservative about 5 years ago. It was like breathing fresh air for the first time.
Sarah Palin built a coalition of Democrats and Republicans and successfully broke the back of the corrupt political machine in Alaska, challenged and defeated the oil companies who had monopolized political power, negotiated with Canada to finalize the biggest energy infrastructure project in North American history, kept her state out of recession, and built a multi-billion dollar surplus while cutting taxes.
Obama was an affirmative action baby, thus the reason to keep all his records sealed. Show me Obama's depth of knowledge. "Corpseman", "hope and change", "kid with asthma…uh…uh…breathalyzer".
How's that kool-aid taste?
Maybe they actually pay attention to what she says and realizes that those who keep proclaiming her "not very bright" are simply parroting what they heard elsewhere.
"Conservatives" will never engage the culture until they stop being AT WAR WITH IT.
ACTUAL conservative, small-gov, low-tax, individual-first philosophy will never die, and will frequently thrive. But for what passes as "conservative" now – the worthless mongrel organism known as the "social right" – the writing is on the wall: It's circling the drain alongside the used-up superstitions it's values are drawn from. American conservatives can either unshackle themselves soon, or be dragged down with it and DISSAPEAR, possibly for a generation or more.
Political movements are not fraternity pledges – they can't split the day evenly between two different worlds, they need to SLEEP at some point. A political movement can either be at the party (i.e. where all of the vital connections and relationships are made) on Saturday night…. OR in Church on Sunday morning – not both.
AtheistCon, you are exactly right. My name is ladykrystyna and I am a former liberal! LOL!
Seriously, it was about lies. Probably the one that really hit me was the Free Speech one that Stossel did a show on many a year ago. At that time, I decided that I was probably still a liberal, but a moderate one.
But little by little, I saw what they were really like. It was really like a "born again" experience, I guess, since I'm not born again, but it sure felt like the scales had fallen from my eyes and that I had seen the light. Things are so much clearer now, like I've been taken out of the Matrix!
Kudos for the Cargo Cult reference! It fits perfectly!
Dittos on what Groucho said – perfect reference!
The media and liberals were the cargo culters. Obama is the cargo.
Excellent post!! never heard Barry's lack of knowledge of the free market and the real world in general put so well!!
EXACTLY! When a Republican/Conservative/Non-Democrat comes into the media cross hairs (and make no bones about it, the propaganda media are the front line foot soldiers of taking down those who aren't on the Left), the Republicans scatter like roaches when the light goes on. Foley sent some salacious emails to pages (either I didn't see the really good ones or they were g-rated). He suddenly loses all party support. Gary Stubbs takes a page out of country, gets him drunk and who knows what else, and he remains in Congress. Bill Clinton diddles an intern in the Oval Office and the Democrats (including the media) form a circle around him like he was a baby musk ox (pun intended). George Bush 43 eventually became a schmoo to the propaganda media. They couldn't write a story on rural life in Outer Mongolia without taking a swipe at him for screwing with the Mongolians' yurts. A Republican doesn't have to be touchy and nasty (Barack Obama) or shrill and red faced (Bill Clinton), but how can we think our president (Bush 41, 43) will fight for us when he won't even take up for himself? Republicans need to start eatin' chitlins' since they obviously don't have any guts when it comes to taking on the propaganda media. Reagan was the only one who knew how to do it. They like to forget the way they reported him, but he got hit with every mudball the propaganda media had in its grubby little arsenal and he a) ridiculed them for it and b) never let it bother him. Look how the voters respond when Cheney goes on the attack.They've been condition to think he's Darth Vader, but when he tells the truth about the Democrats, his numbers soar.
In addition – since Republicans have curled up in the fetal position whenever the media came after them since I started following politics and all they've gotten is more incomings, why don't they try something else. Isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing thinking there'll be different results?
I'd like to see a Republican start every news conference with some kind of reference about the bias in the media. Not mean. Not prissy and pissy like Barack Obama, just a smiling matter of fact statement of fact.
I posted this on Facebook and stated that this was a good article (because it is) and one of my friends proceeded to tell me that it was too boring and that you needed to make it more flashy and entertaining. So I told her that I'd tell you to put more sparkles in your articles…so this is me telling you that…*facepalm*
That's the most concise list of Sarah Palin's accomplishments that I've seen yet. The Left in this country have fed the masses bullhockey regarding Sarah, and even though she continues to defy the narrative that "she's stupid", they still believe it. It takes a real waking-up-out-of-the-stupor moment to get these kool-aid drinkers to see the truth. I hope, for our country's sake, that moment, for many voters, comes soon.
Mom in Wisconsin
Great points all! I and most of the people I work with fall into that majority…But I can tell you that we are very, very motivated to change things coming up in the next elections…Watch out!
That doesnt mean she is stupid. It means she was unprepared.
I think what it might just be is we care way to much what celebs do. Pick up a copy of Us magazine. Everything they say isn't "news;" it's printed slobbering. They ooh and ahh at the little things. I.e. "Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart went for coffee today to do some soul searching. An insider tell Us they held hands and gazed deeply into each other's eyes but soon realized it was just a staring contest." Sure, that's a little on the extreme side, but you get the point. Take a look around the grocery store magazine section; there's at least a dozen different mags dedicated to their over-the-top lives. Maybe I'm a rebel, but I don't give a crud about their lives nor their egos. Sure, I get celeb crushes; I'm 14, that's normal. But it's not like everytime I see Ian Somerhalder–my newest crush–in a mag I'm like, "OMG, I wonder what he did. Oh, he looked at a script! OMG!" I'm not that kinda girl anyways…
To see Glenn Beck so far down the list was sad, but expected. This is Time we're talking about, afterall.
I'm not sure if RDJ is the best example- supposedly he's a quiet conservative, and if you've seen Iron Man 2 yet, it's a very right-leaning movie. Otherwise, great article.
The problem is that pop culture is narcissistic, short sighted, and the product of an over indulgent society. Conservatism by definition is not. It requires thought, careful consideration, vision, and discipline. Conservatives cannot be a part of the current popular culture and remain conservative. What we need is a cultural values shift not more conservatives plunging into the slime of post-modernism. We need more Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and less Sean Pean being a self-indulgent jackass. We need to demonstrate the hypocrisy of a popular culture that allows the biggest consumers of energy to demand that the rest of us give it up and go back to the stoneage. We need to jettison the popular culture of today and work on developing a genuine culture that reflects American values. Iron Man is a good start. The themes in the movie are not pop cultural themes but a throwback to traditional American values.
Bush Graduated from Yale with a Bachelor's degree, and has an MBA from the same Harvard University that Barry attended. the Left still insists that he's a total idiot who's so stupid he couldn't pour piss out o f a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
never confuse education with intelligence; the world is full of educated idiots.
Sarah gets it. And she was there. After all, Piper just had to meet Taylor Swift. The has been moose hunter was the celebrity among the celebrities. Sweet, eh? I doubt if Bill Clinton was amused. Bill who?
How to reach out to a culture that is self absorbed? It is simple…..explain what freedom is. Do you have the right to earn and keep the fruits of your labor? Are 71,000 pages of tax laws abuse of power or a "helping hand." Now for the real catcher "aren't you smart enough to figure out what is good for you without laws being forced on you that dictate what you eat, what you drive, who you date, or what your thermostat is set at?" Start talking freedom, this culture does not know what communism, fascism or socialism is, it's the opposite of freedom. Ask questions Don't lecture.
Bill is still trying to think of a way to get under Sarah's skirt without her or Todd shooting him.
I think conservatives should stop letting their children be so exposed to Hollywood and the music industry. I know it's difficult to keep them away, but they really don't need role models like Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and LiLo, do they?
Yes, we should all just sleep around, do drugs all day long and toss out any morals out the window. The kind of gutter value asshats like you subscribe to are directly related to irresponsibility and everything traditional, common-sense conservatism is against. It figures an anti-Christian bigot like you wouldn't be able to resist taking a potshot at the evil Christians who tell you that sleeping around might result in contracting an STD, or that using too many illicit drugs might have a negative impact on your health. But what would I know, I'm just an odious, brain dead fundie twat who rains on everyone's parade.
Robert Downey Jr. is a conservative.
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