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Michelle Malkin: I'm No South Park Conservative
The National Ledger ^ | May 4, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 05/03/2005 10:06:52 PM PDT by Coastal

I'll get to First Lady Laura Bush's bawdy stand-up routine in a minute. But I want to highlight a related new book out about how young conservatives are shaking up the dominant liberal media culture. It's called "South Park Conservatives." My name is listed on the cover along with many other (mostly) right-leaning pundits, websites, and bloggers, but I must confess to having mixed feelings about the honor.

The best-selling book's author, Brian C. Anderson of the Manhattan Institute, writes a fun, breezy survey documenting the rise of talk radio, FOX News, the Internet, conservative publishing, and college Republican activism. Anderson's chapter on the success of conservative talk radio and the abysmal failure of liberal Air America to replicate it is incisive. Another chapter on the blogosphere (alone worth the price of the book)

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalledger.com ...


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To: Andy from Beaverton

To Michelle, from a proud SP conservative.

Okay momie, we feel properly scolded now. Sheesh, go but a sense of humor. I mean I love the gal but for Pete's sake lighten up.


101 posted on 05/04/2005 12:08:18 AM PDT by trubluolyguy ("Sure dolphins are friendly and smart, friendly and smart on rye bread with mayo")
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To: RepublicMan4U; EveningStar
Look At Me, I'm A Master Of Witty Chatroom Speech. Aren't you impressed?

Hey, that's great! With skills like that, you'll be the most qualified candidate when the Constitutional Party picks its nominee!

102 posted on 05/04/2005 12:09:01 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Serenity Painted Death

Welcome to FreeRepublic?


104 posted on 05/04/2005 12:09:57 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: churchillbuff
IF you think that's not true, you're more ignorant than I thought.

HAHAHA........a person who completely missed the meaning of the post he's replying to calling somebody else ignorant!

Bush hater.

Oh, who am I kidding....

Everything hater!

105 posted on 05/04/2005 12:10:51 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: 68 grunt
Once again, South Park is the vehicle which smokes the needlebutts from the woodwork.

Heh heh...yeah. "Red Sleigh Down" was a brilliant defense of Christianity, but you had to pay attention. Looks like some folks didn't.

I like the heck out of Michell M. but she's wrong on this, and she's wrong about what a South Park Republican is, and she's wrong about Laura's joke, which was funny, IMHO. It isn't just the left that's humorless. Who fights that best, wins, or at least stays sane.

106 posted on 05/04/2005 12:11:38 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SittinYonder
I'm a conservative and a Christian and a fan of South Park, and you can't stop me."""

Fine, and you can't stop people who find the show vulgar and Christian-baiting, from saying so.

107 posted on 05/04/2005 12:11:46 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: EveningStar

Hm, that's cool.

That reminds me--I had a friend in a chatroom I used to frequent who was an SP fan and a pretty committed Catholic. It seemed a bit incongruous, but I liked him anyway. :-)

I guess if it ever came down to the world being slowly taken over by rabid, flesh-eating chupacabras, I'd rather have an SP fan at my back than a Dem.


108 posted on 05/04/2005 12:11:50 AM PDT by k2blader (Immorality bites.)
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To: SittinYonder
To avoid confusing myself in the ballot box with whether I'm a Christian or someone who wants low taxes or etc. etc., I just keep my eye on the goal: Reducing the size and scope of the federal government.

Wow. Who do you ever find to vote for?

109 posted on 05/04/2005 12:11:55 AM PDT by mhx
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To: Mo1
I wonder if there is a list of shows that Conservatives are allowed and not allowed to watch?

I don't think that is the question. I think the real question is/are,

Is there any show at all that a Christian Conservative should avoid watching due to moral standards of any kind?

Is there more than one show in that category?

What criteria is that category based upon?

Is there a line to draw anywhere at all?

Does Hollywood get to be the ones to draw that line, if there is a line?

110 posted on 05/04/2005 12:11:56 AM PDT by Old Landmarks (No fear of man.)
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To: churchillbuff
... that's why you don't like me saying something "divisive" ...

I merely point out your consistency in either being divisive, or encouraging division. Caveat emptor.

111 posted on 05/04/2005 12:12:55 AM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: RepublicMan4U

"Why the haste to claim it as a conservative show?"


No one is saying the show is conservative. It usually busts on both the left and the right, although the left gets it a bit more.

We simply have a sense of humor and can laugh at ourselves...yet one more thing that separates us from the liberals.


112 posted on 05/04/2005 12:13:24 AM PDT by trubluolyguy ("Sure dolphins are friendly and smart, friendly and smart on rye bread with mayo")
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To: EveningStar
I'm guessing small "l". Clue: he's sane.

*LOL* Good guess.

113 posted on 05/04/2005 12:13:41 AM PDT by k2blader (Immorality bites.)
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To: Old Landmarks

Good questions. Christians are commanded by scripture to flee from occasions of sin. Surely that means that some Hollywood fare should be off-limits for Christians.


114 posted on 05/04/2005 12:14:10 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff
Fine, and you can't stop people who find the show vulgar and Christian-baiting, from saying so

I never tried to. In fact, one of my first posts on this thread I said that I understand completely why friends of mine do not like South Park. But enjoying a television show does not preclude me from being a Christian or a conservative as some here are suggesting.

115 posted on 05/04/2005 12:14:54 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: Billthedrill

I kinda like Michelle, too, but it seems she has resorted to gonzo. Ratings, controvery, I dunno.


116 posted on 05/04/2005 12:15:05 AM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: 68 grunt
I merely point out your consistency in either being divisive,"""

Telling truth is always going to seem "divisive" to people who don't want to hear it.

117 posted on 05/04/2005 12:15:28 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: Serenity Painted Death

You're wandered on to the wrong floor, bucko. Weren't you suppose to get off the elevator on the floor with the big nice padded walls?


118 posted on 05/04/2005 12:15:36 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: tortoise

I knew all that hypocrite stuff would come up eventually.

I tend to think most people who attempt to argue that about Christians they personally dislike are hypocrites themselves.


119 posted on 05/04/2005 12:16:06 AM PDT by k2blader (Immorality bites.)
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To: SittinYonder

Don't think so.


120 posted on 05/04/2005 12:17:03 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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