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Posted on 04/23/2013 2:02:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
To borrow a Sarah Palin aphorism, after their election defeat in 2008, conservatives didn’t retreat, they “reloaded.” Instead of finding new solutions to public policy problems or seriously reevaluating Bush’s failures, conservatives focused almost solely on new ways to communicate their old ideas. To do so, they looked to their natural allies in corporate marketing for inspiration — and they looked to the Left for imitation. The result has been a recent and profound turnaround that has allowed the Right the bury Obama’s message and dominate the political debate.
Historical right-wing domination of the media
Traditionally, conservatives have almost always dominated direct mail solicitations, retained the best pollsters money could buy and paid for the most celebrated advertising makers. Message discipline is the first lesson for any Republican politician. Talk radio? unquestionably controlled by conservatives.
Cable news? Fox News couldn’t be more right-wing and popular. The Right had also dominated the Internet for most of the Internet’s fledging history. Throughout the 1990s and for much of President George W. Bush’s first term, conservatives easily ruled online news. And much of that initial sucess stemmed from foundations and entrepreneurial pioneers such as Matt Drudge, creator of the wildly popular headline-aggregating site Drudge Report, and Jim Robinson of the news message board Free Republic. The pair formed a symbiotic relationship. Drudge, who played a role in breaking the Monica Lewinsky story, made waves in the media with scoops on the latest Clinton scandals, and Free Republic provided a platform for conservatives to share conspiratorial perspectives and to organize their own rallies and events. Many of the angry mobs hounding Clinton at public events were mobilized by Free Republic. The impeachment rally that was organized by the Free Republic, “Treason Is the Reason,” featured Republican lawmakers and writer Christopher Hitchens...
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LOL!
What a wonderful photo....
hmmm, my computer screen is getting misty....
Congratulations, Jim. Nobody does it better.
You da man!
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Agreed...
You’re one of my heroes.
Jim, your site is God’s will working through your life.
JimRob’s changed history for the better - we’ve been blessed by his work.
Thanks for the ping KC.
Just think JimRob, some day you will be up there with Ben Franklin and other early lovers of freedom discussing how to best get your message out!
I bet they will be jealous of your prowess!
Hear! Hear! Well done, Sir.
LOL! Just you and me, Ben, baby.
Beats nailing notes to the Liberty Tree, though it was effective in the day.
Lee Fang
Fang was an intern with ThinkProgress and also a researcher for Progressive Accountability. As an undergraduate, Fang also interned for Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), for the activist watchdog outfit Media Matters and for the lobbying firm Westin Rinehart.. Fang has been a critic of Islamophobia of American right-wing evangelicals.
As an investigative blogger for CAPAF’s Think Progress blog, Fang took a hit for secretly coordinating his coverage with Democrat-aligned special interest groups. Fang continued his questionable reporting methods after joining the Republic Report alongside convicted felon Jack Abramoff soon after his release from prison.
“The author, Lee fang, is an America-hating communist scumbag but he actually does a pretty good analysis here. If you get past the lies and sneakiness (for example, he claims Brent Bozell created the “liberal media myth”, LOL)”...
Where is the best place to hide a lie? Of course, in between two truths...
Two thumbs up for you, Jim!
More than a smidge. A drool.
Of course, it helps that their MSM tools are getting more devalued and more clearly hebetated by their yowling knee-jerk partisanship every day. I wish they'd put on Larry O'Donnell and Chrissy Tingles every day, forever.
SOOOO..... Abramoff was a lowdown scumbag and lying SOB when he was working with Tom Delay, the House GOP Whip, but now he's okay?
Fangboy doesn't look to investigatorial in that photo ..... kinda looks like he might know that Jeff Gannon-Guckert guy and some of Bawney Fwank's other homies.
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