June 9, 2009
CONSERVATIVE MISINFORMATION UNIVERSITY.... Watching this very impressive video, put together by the fine folks at Media Matters, I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.
The point, of course, is to show, category by category, just how ridiculous conservative media discourse has become. That's not exactly a new revelation, of course, but seeing it put together in this format helps drive the point home -- the discourse on the right is both deeply frightening and increasingly deranged. Any shred of intellectual honesty has disappeared entirely.
Media Matters' Karl Frisch, doing his best fake-commencement address, explained to the conservatives featured in the video, "The path here was long. Some said it would never end. You lost your integrity. You lost your senses. But you did it with gusto!
"You lied. You misled. You twisted the truth beyond recognition. Together, you may not have learned much, but you certainly sounded convincing to the unsuspecting ear. And that's what really matters right? History, science, economics, pre-med, pre-law... the degrees you have earned may mean nothing in real life but in the cable news business, well, it's solid gold.... Friends. Family. Fellow wing-nuts. I present to you, the Conservative Misinformation University class of 2009!"
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Political Animal - CONSERVATIVE MISINFORMATION UNIVERSITY
Sadly true - conservatism has much to offer when it isn't dogmatic, but it has been horribly dogmatic and the current leaders of conservatism have completely abandoned any moral integrity, as this video shows - not to mention the heart of what conservatism meant.
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Forget "conservatism," please. It has, operationally, de facto, been Godless and thus irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God they are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:
ReplyDelete”[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth."
Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com