Michelle Malkin: I'm No South Park Conservative

The National Ledger ^ | May 4, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

[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)

[Republican Wildcat]

Many on here seem to long for the days when we had a classy first lady like Hillary Clinton...

[Stonedog]

Many on here seem to long for the days when we had a classy first lady like Hillary Clinton.

They miss her so much, they intend to elect her President to prove it.

[Howlin]

It's more like they long for the 40's and 50's when women were seen and not heard, period.

[churchillbuff]

Do I need to remind you which "side" of this argument is always, perpetually threatening to leave the GOP? """

Yes, it's the "moderates" who are always threatening to leave - Chafee, Jeffords (he made good on the threat), and various "pro choice" RINOs.

[SittinYonder]

I think that the overall theme of most SP shows - the "I learned something today" at the end - tends to have a conservative or laissez faire (libertarian) bent. They can make fun of conservative's foibles throughout, but the reason conservatives claim the show, I think, is because ultimately its message is more conservative.

[k2blader]

"South Park" may be "politically incorrect." But "politically incorrect" is not always a synonym for "conservative."

Malkin nails it, as usual.

I'm glad she doesn't consider herself a liberal, er, a "South Park conservative."

[EveningStar]

Treating the Constimatooshin Party as a viable entity has frequently been known to elicit hysterical laughter.

[Howlin]

Yes, it's the "moderates" who are always threatening to leave

You couldn't tell the truth if your life depended on it.

[LibertarianInExile]

I know! If she had spun that you know what in her you know what one more time I would have been sick! I'm tired of that awful, lascivious Laura Bush corrupting our nation's youth at adult press corps dinners that have for years been ribald opportunities for the press, President, and First Lady to lampoon each other and themselves! She needs to consider a more appropriate use of her time, like lying back and thinking of England, or attending society balls, or arranging her daughters' dowries like a goodwife should, because any good woman knows to keep her yap shut until spoken to by her husband! Mrs. Bush--and I use that title loosely, because until things change I don't think the President should consider that wanton harlot his wife--needs to have that rod the good Christian Right folks inserted in her back readjusted so that she is a stiff-spined, moral woman again, not the evil Babs-Hillary clone we saw nights ago! And I only use the term 'back' because I don't want to use the term 'butt,' which is evil and comes from Satan.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Make no mistake, Rush does the same schtick, just milder, kinda like a Jay Leno.

All national, and most local guys are no different than pro wrestling. Savage and Michael Reagan and Mike Gallagher are the worst outside of Savage I have heard, terrible stuff.

But, on the other side Randi Rhodes is like listening to kittens being thrown into a lawn shredder.

[L.N. Smithee]

Tell me, if you don't mind, did calling Peach a "faux Christian" give you a rush or did it just give you that warm, fuzzy morally superior feeling so many of you seem to crave?

I'm glad you asked. Because it's my opinion that Free Republic is being taken over by people claiming to be Christians. There is a certain faction on FR that CONSTANTLY pretends they are Christian. I think they are paid opinion shapers who come here to stir dissent. Anyone can pretend to be anything on the internet. Read the book for which Jim Robinson wrote the foreward -- Hillary's Secret War. It details exactly how the opinion shapers on the left come to web sites ilke FR and have been tracked as coming from the DNC and the Washington Post, etc., to come here and try to shape opinion.

Surprise, Howlin! Everything that you just read in red wasn't written by me. It was written by Peach.

What you quoted was my response to statements like those, which were peppered throughout that thread ("But who knows? You could be a troll, too -- one of those 'faux Christians' on that ol' Internet. I just read about them somewhere").

So you can direct your stupid question to her. Take it away, Peach.

Meanwhile, Howlin, consider this: Think you and Peach and the rest of you who throw around the word "Taliban" so much you might as well be liberals might be getting that morally superior rush as well? You seem to know more about it than I do.

[68 grunt]

Once again, South Park is the vehicle which smokes the needlebutts from the woodwork. God, I can't wait until the boys skewer these needlebutt extremist. They're worse than liberals.

[k2blader]

The reason I don't like SP liberals is because they are decidedly Christophobic.

[Stonedog]

True libertarians are no friends of Republicans, especially these days, what with Bush expanding government in flagrant fashion, waging endless war, which is both an enemy of freedom and capitalism, and a litany of other regrettable things. But, hey, it could be worse. We could have Lincoln for President.

Legalize It!!

[Central Scrutiniser]

Is there still a constimatoootion party? I thought the 25 folk moved to Costa Rica and tried to over throw their non existent military.

[EveningStar]

The reason I don't like SP liberals is because they are decidedly Christophobic.

How's that?

[ajolympian2004]

I agree with Michelle's commentary on this subject.

I have to mention a funny South Park story though.

While visiting a Mormon friend and family in Utah the 'kids' and 'cousins' asked us if we'd take them out to a drive-in movie. Little did we know what their plan was. We, inside the car, were watching our run of the mill flick... and outside we discover about an hour into our show the kids and cousins are all atop the SUV roof looking in the other direction watching the South Park movie on the other screen which they were not allowed to view at that age. Anyway, we sure got a chuckle out of that experience. Kids... they'll find a way... :)

[churchillbuff]

You couldn't tell the truth if your life depended on it.""""

So it's not true that moderates like Chafee and Jeffords threaten to leave the GOP? IF you think that's not true, you're more ignorant than I thought.

[k2blader]

It's pretty obvious. Just scroll any SP liberal thread.