Posted on 12/11/2005 1:42:14 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
When the liberal activist Matt Stoller was running a blog for the Democrat Jon Corzine's 2005 campaign for governor, he saw the power of the conservative blogosphere firsthand. Shortly before the election, a conservative Web site claimed that politically damaging information about Corzine was about to surface in the media. It didn't. But New Jersey talk-radio shock jocks quoted the online speculation, inflicting public-relations damage on Corzine anyway. To Stoller, it was proof of how conservatives have mastered the art of using blogs as a deadly campaign weapon.
That might sound counterintuitive. After all, the Howard Dean campaign showed the power of the liberal blogosphere. And the liberal-activist Web site DailyKos counts hundreds of thousands of visitors each day. But Democrats say there's a key difference between liberals and conservatives online. 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.) Conservatives, by contrast, skillfully use the Web to provide maximum benefit for their issues and candidates. They are generally less interested in examining every side of every issue and more focused on eliciting strong emotional responses from their supporters.
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. "One blogger on the Republican side can have a real impact on a race because he can just plug right into the right-wing infrastructure that the Republicans have built," Stoller says.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Yes. I used to think they were lying to try to fool us, but now I believe they lie to fool themselves.
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.
Once again 180 degrees out of sync.
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.
BTTT
Please hit "Preview" before you post, so you can see what your post looks like. Thx.
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.
The author? MICHAEL CROWLE. Never worth reading and in the case, especially true.
My conservative fact trumps your dirty commie lie every day.
"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!
Ping.
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.
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.
"[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.
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".
As opposed to the whole MSM infrastructure owned by the liberals - very interesting. :-)
I laughed at that one, too. LOL.
-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.
:-D
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