[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The fact remains, we will not repair this nation until we get equal time on the broadcast systems. We cannot fix anything until we end Liberal censorship of facts damaging to liberal ideas.

. . . and we cannot justify equal time for conservatives when the argument is framed as “equal time between conservatives and objective journalists.” That is an obvious loser, and it is not what we are demanding. We demand equal time between traditional advocates of freedom (i.e., philosophers in the etymological sense who do not claim a monopoly on wisdom but who do insist on the reality of truth), on one hand, and cynical demagogues on the other. It actually is a reprise of the contest between philosophers and sophists. The sophists claimed to be wise, the philosophers did not make that claim but insisted on facts and logic rather than appeals to authority.

[DiogenesLamp]

. . . and we cannot justify equal time for conservatives when the argument is framed as “equal time between conservatives and objective journalists.”

I am taking it as a given that we will frame the argument as equal time between conservatives and liberals who have long controlled the airwaves by pretending to be "journalists."

It actually is a reprise of the contest between philosophers and sophists. The sophists claimed to be wise, the philosophers did not make that claim but insisted on facts and logic rather than appeals to authority.

And this is a rather accurate description of the exact divide we are facing.

'What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’

— Lord Melbourne —

[PGalt]

BUMP!