How NPR Made Me a Conservative

Front Page Magazine ^ | March 29, 2004 | Paul Beston

[Captiva]

friggin' awesome.

[Springman]

Bump for later.

[JimRed]

I don't expect to see lefty ideas crushed in my lifetime. I can live with that.

That's fine, so long as they remain just ideas. It's the putting into practice that does the harm.

[OldCorps]

RE: Whitaker Chambers;

I agree with you about his contribution being underreported. What an honest man! You have only to tell how important he was by the amount of withering blather directed at him by the left.

[Springman]

Ping!!

[redhead]

"same here...i was definitely uninformed....i can excuse young folks for not being aware...but old liberals are pitiful. I really enjoyed the part in this article that describes the built up rage in people that try to be so passive and non-judgemental. It's true!! I have to rant and be a troglodyte on occassion or i get ill :)"

LOLOL! Sounds like you need a BLOGSPOT! Go for it. I promise to read it, and maybe even put a link to it up on my website...

Go HERE

[ChadGore]

a Freeper MUST READ !

Thanks for posting it !

"All things considered," my time in public radio was a breath of fresh air.

[moodyskeptic]

excellent read. As a recovering lib myself, I can relate. Here's a snippet taken from an article I wrote years ago:

It was a no-brainer. Any kid my age, given a choice which side to ally with: Protester or Pigs, chose Protester. They put flowers in the gun barrels of the National Guard (how cool is THAT?). I viewed this through the prism of my age and sex. The untold, but clearly implied, expectation about Vietnam protesters and Student Activists was that immediately following the protest, the boys and girls would, go to their frat houses or apartments and disrobe for some wild hippie sex, all unshaved underarms and no underwear, in a musky sweaty heap, probably an orgy with other protesters. The salivating "straights" would spit phony derision in transparent envy about hippie girls and long hair and communes in the woods and the dangerous new drug culture. Envy was obvious.

Something was happening to the major media, too. Tired of ridicule from the new young press, the establishment press did a giant flip-flop on the contentious issues. Increasingly, the big newspapers and the three TV networks (the so-called Big Three) were now against the war, for college racial integration and civil rights, sympathetic with protesters and malcontents, and clearly dismissive of their own previous opinions. Patriotism was hopelessly passe. News anchors grew their hair over their ears in an attempt to "connect".

Dear reader, it was a great time to be a kid with open-minded parents and older siblings who would bring home reports from UCLA and the "streets". The tension between old and new was delicious.

Kerouac was out, Hunter S. Thompson was in. William F. Buckley was out, Tom Hayden was in. For me and millions like me, resistance to the shift in dominant culture was so futile that it was never an option. At least to a wide-eyed kid. If you defended the war you were a "nazi", if you criticized pot smokers you were a fascist. In this environment, the real mystery is why there was anyone left to join ROTC, the Boy Scouts or try for good grades. Good grades would only put you on the fast track to the hopeless dead end corporate world where the Capitalist Oppressor would exploit your efforts.

[hosepipe]

Excellent article. FrontPageMag is a withering display of ammo and poison. To liberal ideas and ideals the TRUTH is poison. Liberalism is indeed a mental disease. Little wonder liberals and Muslims are on the same page.

[Vision]

One co-worker, who had served on the committee that hired me, felt betrayed.

humm...what country are we in?