I guess "conservative" has been redefined too.
Well, sort of. It has come to mean any enemy, real or imagined, of the "Mainstream" media.
Fox News and WSJ conservative? Even Telegraph?
I suppose any outlet that reports a conservative side at all is now classified as “conservative”?
Anyway, congrats Jim Thompson!
This has got to be satire.
It is very loosely defined at least.
I assume the thinking is “if the mainstream considers it to have any conservative flavor at all, then it is conservative.”
That is certainly true of their including the Army Times on this list. That is purely because it is the Army Times.
The Army Times, fwiw, is owned by Gannet News Corp. and, iirc, and they won’t allow us even to post anything here on Free Republic at all.
I guess "conservative" has been redefined too.
The trouble is that we are always trying to think and communicate in the distorted, Newspeak version of “English” which we inherited. We call the FR perspective “conservative” because the right word for it - liberal - has been co-opted by journalism to mean pretty much the opposite of what it meant before the 1920s.Americans - all Americans, FReepers not least - are truly progressive and truly liberal. FReepers believe in liberty the way the Framers of the Constitution believed in liberty, and we believe in “the progress of science and the useful arts” in the same way the Framers did.Neither of those attitudes is, in literal language, “conservative.”
I guess "conservative" has been redefined too.
The trouble is that we are always trying to think and communicate in the distorted, Newspeak version of “English” which we inherited. We call the FR perspective “conservative” because the right word for it - liberal - has been co-opted by journalism to mean pretty much the opposite of what it meant before the 1920s.Americans - all Americans, FReepers not least - are truly progressive and truly liberal. FReepers believe in liberty the way the Framers of the Constitution believed in liberty, and we believe in “the progress of science and the useful arts” in the same way the Framers did.Neither of those attitudes is, in literal language, “conservative.”