William A. Jacobson
Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School,
Ithaca, NY
Posted on 09/06/2009 10:15:44 AM PDT by radar101
The lesson being learned by the left-wing blogosphere from the sputtering Glenn Beck boycott and the Van Jones Affair is not that political arguments should be won on the merits, and in the hearts and minds of the public.
No, the lesson being learned is that Democrats and the nutroots do not fight hard enough to smear Republicans, conservatives, and Blue Dog Democrats. As in the kid-glove treatment of Sarah Palin and her family.
So a Crooks and Liars blogger wants to up the ante. Boycotting Glenn Beck is not enough because it is not working at depriving Fox News of any revenue. A boycott of Fox News is needed: It's time for all-out political war with these wingnuts. Just boycotting Glenn Beck isn't going to be enough; sure, Jones' old organization, Color of Change, may have convinced 57 advertisers to drop out of supporting Beck, but all they did was shift their advertising dollars to other Fox programs. Rupert Murdoch still got their money, and thus eventually so did Beck.
If progressives want to have any hope of enacting their agenda, they have to do something about Fox News and its advertisers. And we obviously are going to have to do it without any help from this weak-kneed White House.
Memo to all: There is a Fox News boycott which has been going on for years, and has gone nowhere.
Follow up memo to all: The reason the progressive agenda is failing is that the American people did not think they were electing a progressive agenda.
There is no conspiracy to silence progressive voices. There is no attempt "to choke the breath out of American debate" as a DailyKos blogger claims. You own CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and PBS. You own The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The L.A. Times, the Associated Press and Reuters. You own the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House.
The failure to get your message out is not the problem. The problem is your message. Your feeling of being politically lost is the result of your own myopia:
This should serve as a reminder that many conservatives are not interested in solving the country's problems nor helping to set a public policy agenda but rather they seek to destroy and derail the Obama Administration at any cost. You do not understand that an increasing percentage of the population thinks the Obama administration is going too far too fast, and that derailing that agenda is the first step towards solving the country's problems. People want solutions without restructuring society.
If you refuse to accept that the progressive agenda is an unpopular agenda, then start more boycotts. Because the Glenn Beck boycott worked so well.
Here! Here!!
This guy is a comedy writer, right? right? I mean nobody can be that stupid and I was laughing hard in just three sentences.
William A. Jacobson
Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School,
Ithaca, NY
God Bless, Glenn Beck !!
His ratings on Fox sky rocketed in spite of the VJ boycott ....what does that tell the liberal loonies !!
They DON’T GET IT .......the American people are WAKING UP to their big mistake of electing a RADICAL CONGRESS & A RADICAL POTUS !!
He is right on.
That comment was from the Twilight Zone...Libs are like little whiney babies. They just can’t stand to see their own hateful tactics used against them...except that we use facts and they use innuendos and lies to slander conservatives.
Ithaca, NY explanation made.
What they don’t get is that they are so far out of the mainstream, no one wants anything to do with them.
I am believing that GEICO and assorted other companies that pulled their ads from Beck are in support of Van Jones.
I can’t see how Glenn Beck survives although I hope sincerely he does. I also cannot see how Fox can let him go.
Think of it, the fact that Beck is the 3rd largest cable program is good. but it’s only good because it is bringing in cable dollars. They are dwindling.
Maybe now is time to contact the advertisers and remind them that Van Jones was the real bad guy.
ITHACA, CITY OF EVIL
They are in an echo chamber with their constant ranting about us all being racists.
All of us who oppose his policies know we are not racist.
If America was racist McCain would be president.
You do realize this was not a leftist writing, right? He is repeating the leftist crap and refuting it.
They will fail.
The silent boycott against ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN seems to be working quite well and no one had to waste any time or money getting it organized and executed. Meanwhile, they are beating their heads against the wall trying to stifle the only media outlet outside of talk radio that dares to challenge the leftist dogma (on occasion at least, Shepard Smith and some others excepted)
What? Just upholding the time honored tradition of posting without reading the WHOLE article.
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