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My unlikely bridge to the right [NPR type moves right]
Washington Times ^
| March 27, 2004
| Paul Beston
Posted on 03/27/2004 5:09:18 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A few years ago, I worked for a struggling dot-com in Manhattan whose work force was almost uniformly liberal. Given my conservative orientation, I saw little sense in getting involved in workplace political discussions. My silence was interpreted as acquiescence until I could stand it no longer and fessed up. One co-worker, who had served on the committee that hired me, felt betrayed.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: epiphany; marvinolasky; npr; robertbork; shelbysteele
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To: I_be_tc
Bump.
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posted on
03/27/2004 7:40:33 PM PST
by
JusPasenThru
(I think we're all bozos on this bus.)
To: Roscoe Karns
Great article! The journey described here doesn't bear much resemblence to the journey I made. It's always interesting to see how other people have crossed over from the darkside into the light.
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posted on
03/27/2004 7:48:10 PM PST
by
exDemMom
(Does any rational person really want the fate of our country left to liberals?)
To: hellinahandcart
Conservative sighting in NYC!
43
posted on
03/27/2004 7:49:35 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: Socratic
I used to have a leftie roommate who actually worked on All Things Considered! I was living with the enemy! To say that I was misinformed is an understatement of biblical proportions.
Semper Fi
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posted on
03/27/2004 7:53:11 PM PST
by
viaveritasvita
("When Love takes you in, everything changes.")
To: Roscoe Karns
Great post. This is very well written.
To: Roscoe Karns
Super job. Bookmarked. Thanks much, Roscoe. Great job, Mr. Beston.
46
posted on
03/27/2004 7:56:12 PM PST
by
Paul_B
To: Roscoe Karns; sweetliberty; Budge
There's hope!
Thanks for the excellent article.
Bork's book "Slouching Toward Gomorrah" was one of the best books I ever read.
Semper Fi
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47
posted on
03/27/2004 7:59:31 PM PST
by
viaveritasvita
("When Love takes you in, everything changes.")
To: Old Student
After my eldest went away to college at Coe in Iowa in '94, I loaned him a copy of Steele's first best seller. Steel had been a student activist at Coe and left the left as he matured and furthered his education and life experience, as I understand it. Fine writer.
48
posted on
03/27/2004 8:17:39 PM PST
by
KC Burke
To: Roscoe Karns
btt
49
posted on
03/27/2004 10:15:46 PM PST
by
Marie
(My coffee cup is waaaaay too small to deal with this day.)
To: eddie willers
With my new found wisdom, I had concluded that liberals were simply wrong. Many of them crossed over the line from just plain wrong to downright evil a long time ago.
50
posted on
03/27/2004 10:31:21 PM PST
by
Noumenon
(Liberals' dedication to the destruction of a free society renders them unfit to live in that same so)
To: Roscoe Karns
Well-written. Reminds me of my own right-ward journey.
51
posted on
03/27/2004 10:33:54 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
("We are delighted that Pecker will be leading the way.")
To: Roscoe Karns
Note the cure. Bottle it. Give it away! (FREE!)
To: Roscoe Karns
It's encouraging to think that conservatism can attract people of this quality, even after years spent marinating in the mythology of the other side.
Terrific article. Thanks...
To: Roscoe Karns
Great article, Roscoe. Thank you so much for sharing. I've sent to many past and present DemoncRats.
Great find, well written, with just enough emotion.
54
posted on
03/28/2004 1:48:29 AM PST
by
Gracey
(NOT Fonda Kerry and his 9.10 Democrat Party mentality)
To: Socratic
Those who don't know how good a closing line this is, does not know their enemy. Wondering how many people didn't get it.
I spend the drive to work questioning the NPR radio announcers, but it has taught my children to recognize bias in reporting - my youngest is really good at picking out bias, omissions, etc.!
55
posted on
03/28/2004 6:41:15 AM PST
by
Amelia
To: StillProud2BeFree
FYI
56
posted on
03/28/2004 6:48:12 AM PST
by
Amelia
To: Amelia
"...it has taught my children to recognize bias in reporting - my youngest is really good at picking out bias..."
That's some fine parenting goin on there!
57
posted on
03/28/2004 7:30:35 AM PST
by
Socratic
(Yes, there is method in the madness.)
To: Congressman Billybob
This is a good article. What troubles me, however, is now many of us on the right, especially we Freepers, do not really read the Left's intellectuals. Oh, sure, we're exposed to the daily bias of the press and liberal pontificating, but few, I suspect, actually read the liberal and leftist intellectuals. This is as much a mistake as the left's not reading conservative thinkers: we risk attacking only a caricature of the left, which transmogrifies into a straw man.
58
posted on
03/28/2004 11:03:48 AM PST
by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
To: DC native
The only thing we can expect of ourselves is to grow. This inludes change if such is warranted by new information. Yet, it's one of the hardest things to do and separates those that are intellectually honest from those that are not. I respect this gentleman greatly.
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posted on
03/28/2004 1:56:50 PM PST
by
TopQuark
To: hellinahandcart
"Real human beings do not have any large unfulfilled capacity for love," Bork wrote. "They simply do not regard men as infinitely precious, whatever the homilist may say on Sunday; and they lack the boundless energy and selflessness required to will themselves to brotherhood. ... When utopians are frustrated in the realization of their vision by the real nature of humans, who are then seen as perversely evil, they can turn nasty and violent."
Maybe other liberals already knew that the soul of man was, at best, equal parts dark and light. For me, though, coming up against this assertion -- which I instantly recognized as true --
Truth ping!
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