NYT: Conservative Blogs are More Effective

New York Times ^ | December 11, 2005 | MICHAEL CROWLE

[speedy]

Yes. I used to think they were lying to try to fool us, but now I believe they lie to fool themselves.

[Hadean]

I often get my news feeds from a UK news-link portal, which on rare occasion lands me into a liberal blog.

The other day just that happened and I was reading an article on the Christmas war, or as the trying-hard-to-be-an-intellectual Author pointed out, the lack of it. Long story short, the Author had two arguments that the war on Christmas was nonsense:

The first was that it was just a conservative tactic to give libs a bad name (read: right wing conspiracy).

The second was an observation. She walked across the street and had seen a lot of "Christmas stuff".

And that's a problem I often see with liberal blogs. They either forget or never knew to begin with that people have the ability to utilize deductive reasoning.

[MoochPooch]

Napoleon once said, "The mind and the heart are in a constrant struggle. But always, the mind wins out."

The problem with the liberal blogs isn't just the amount of emotion, though. It's the lack of reality. Not all their ideas are crazy -- but they're taken out of context or to the extreme, to the point of other distortion. When you lack moral guidelines, anything goes, and you can invent your own fantasy world.

[TASMANIANRED]

Once again 180 degrees out of sync.

[Lancey Howard]

Hilarious stuff! I never heard of this scumbag, Michael Crowle, but he is apparently as clueless and dishonest as the rest of the NY Times staff.

Conservative blogs and websites are more potent than their liberal counterparts because traditional American capitalism is superior to amoral Euro-style secular socialism, and this has been proven consistently around the world for decades. This truism makes it easy for conservatives to argue their case since truth itself is on their side.

Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, must lie because they simply have no other choice. And most importantly today, the Democrats Party's allies in the dinosaur liberal newsrooms (I'm looking at you, New York Times) no longer hold a monopoly on the selection and dissemination of the news and therefore can no longer get away with things like forged documents, lying testimony, and agenda-driven stories which are spun into unrecognizable propaganda pieces for the Democrat Party.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure all this out.

[185JHP]

BTTT

[paulat]

Please hit "Preview" before you post, so you can see what your post looks like. Thx.

[ChadGore]

Someone send a memo to the NYtimes . . .

We tell the truth, and people are attracted to that.

The NYT should try more truth. It's free, and it will increase their shrinking market shar.

[daybreakcoming]

The author? MICHAEL CROWLE. Never worth reading and in the case, especially true.

[lawdude]

My conservative fact trumps your dirty commie lie every day.

[lawdude]

"They are generally less interested in examining every side of every issue and more focused on eliciting strong emotional responses from their supporters. "

The sun rises in the east. How many other sides of the argument are there?

You can argue opinions/ideas but you cannot argue facts!

[Alberta's Child]

Ping.

[Cruz]

But what really makes conservatives effective is their pre-existing media infrastructure, composed of local and national talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, the Fox News Channel and sensationalist say-anything outlets like the Drudge Report - all of which are quick to pass on the latest tidbit from the blogosphere

Liberals have a far more vast "pre-existing media infrastructure" that includes decades of usually one-sided liberalspeak from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NYT, WP, almost all major newspapers, TIMES, LIFE, NEWSWEEK, etc that all portray themselves as objective media.

[California Patriot]

Yeah, the conservative blogs are a "deadly weapon" that badly damaged Corzine. So badly that he was elected governor by a wide margin.

Ho-hum. Wake me when the "powerful" right-wing blogs win us a race in a blue state.

[hsalaw]

"[Conservative blogs] are generally less interested in examining every side of every issue and more focused on eliciting strong emotional responses from their supporters."

Oh, give me a break. Hasn't this guy ever heard of the DUmmies or that DailyKos? They're completely emotional with no thought whatsoever.

[NJRighty]

Liberals use the Web to air ideas and vent grievances with one another, often ripping into Democratic leaders. (Hillary Clinton, for instance, is routinely vilified on liberal Web sites for supporting the Iraq war.)

If he thinks conservatives never vilify Republican leaders when dissatisfied, then he's never visited FR. He should use the search feature and type in "Harriet Miers".

[Victoria Delsoul]

But what really makes conservatives effective is their pre-existing media infrastructure, composed of local and national talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, the Fox News Channel and sensationalist say-anything outlets like the Drudge Report - all of which are quick to pass on the latest tidbit from the blogosphere.

As opposed to the whole MSM infrastructure owned by the liberals - very interesting. :-)

[Alberta's Child]

I laughed at that one, too. LOL.

[AmericanChef]

-They are generally less interested in examining every side of every issue...-

Anybody got a lefty blog source that examines every side of every issue?...Anybody?...Thought not.

[Victoria Delsoul]

:-D