Exposing Left-Wing Lunacy

The Gator Standard ^ | May 2002 | Austin Ellis

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Exposing Left-Wing Lunacy
By: Austin Ellis

Fighting Nazi tactics with 60's grassroots ideology and publicly blogging Liberals everywhere-- all in a day's work for Josh Mercer.

March 6, 2002 saw the awakening of a new voice: campusnonsense.com. It was Stanley Kurtz's idea.

"I was reading the National Review Online, a conservative internet magazine, and Kurtz suggested that campuses that already have conservative newspapers should start up a local blog site publicly exposing radical left wing ideas. I took this one step further and created a links site featuring blogs form across the nation," said Mercer about his site.

(The word blog comes from the term weblog, which is a series of postings on the Internet.)

Campus Nonsense has been getting 1000 unique visitors a week and is has been nationally praised by the National Review Online and Fox News Online.

"The craziest story, or at least the biggest cause for concern posted on the site is the increase in vandalism and theft against conservative newspapers. It has happened four times this semester," said Mercer.

Vandalisms and thefts have occurred at the University of Florida, University of California Berkley, University of Texas, and Arizona State.

Mercer continued, "This is not new, it's been going on for years and years. What's changed is that there are more and more conservative movements. There are over 70 newspapers across the nation. The left understands the conservative movement, and they aren't afraid to use nazi tactics against it."

Mercer works for the Leadership Institute located in Arlington, Virginia. The organization helps set up conservative college newspapers like The Gator Standard, brings speakers to campuses, and holds seminars and workshops designed to train tomorrow's conservative leaders.

"We're here to help people realize they're part of a growing conservative movement, and that people really do listen to college students. We learned in the 60's that grassroots movements really work, so we're applying their tactics to our conservative cause," said Mercer.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

fyi

[ozzymandus]

Good deal. The left hates the internet because they can't control it.

[doxteve]

Glad to see the stumps stirring in the swamps.

For a long time now I've been urging a conservative version of the underground press to begin not only on campus, but in every town and village that can do so.

We saw in the sixties that the radical left underground press works.

The papers are easy to print -- and can be done locally.

There are many surviving to this day. The Seattle Weekly, Every Other Weekly, and so on are still given away at coffee shops, co-ops, and wherever hippies hang out.

If massage parlors, holistic quacks, vitamin companies, and those in the business of making dogfoods without animal products can advertise in the current leftist garbage pits, then surely conservative publications can also find advertisers.

Most left wing underground publications started with volunteer staff. Now of course they have to hire them.

I believe the conservatives can and should do the same.

Freerepublic is one example of a very agile and able underground press for the electronic age. It can surely work in a print version as well.

[concerned about politics]

Thanks for the link. It makes good e-mailing material when the left is going loonie again. Lefties could be fun if their stupidity weren't so dangerous.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Lefties could be fun if their stupidity weren't so dangerous

So let's make fun of their stupidity!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

2nd sentence, nomination for Quote Of The Day.

[CyberAnt]

I would only take exception to one statement: "The left understands the conservative movement"

I don't believe the left does "understand" what the conservative movement is. All they know is they are terrified of it.

[RJayneJ]

Thanks for the nomination! };^D )

[LarryLied]

Thanks for the flag. This is great.