Gilded Toad is a funny term.
There is no such thing.
Fox News (NewsCorp) execs endorse John Kerry in 2004. The network is not conservative. Some of the programming leans right in commentary.
Jesus... Can RedState just die already?
Another helpful screed from Redstate.
Redstate is part of the Salem Media conglomerate that now owns most of the once-independent conservative outlets like Human Events, Regnery Publishing, Eagle Publishing and of course Salem Radio that broadcasts Mark Levin.
Between Salem and National Review we have been treated to non-stop criticism of Donald Trump but apparently unless Rush and Hannity join the chorus and Mark Levin steps up stronger the end of the world is upon us.
An excellent article. Levin deserves the barbs he gets in the piece, though at least he has since come to his senses.
I wonder how this will play in light of the fact that Trump was buying positive media coverage from Trumpbart...whose distaste for Cruz began, coincidentally enough, around the same time as Trump announced his candidacy. One wonders if other conservative media outlets will be outed as well, as many have shown surprisingly sudden changes in behavior and belief since the “gilded toad” began his quest.
First, RedState has zero credibility.
Second, there is no “conservative media”. Nor should there be. It’s bad enough that most of the media leans left but you cannot right a wrong by doing the same thing in the opposite direction. Media should be unbiased and have the integrity to report both sides objectively. As much as people hate it, the Fairness Doctrine was created with that goal in mind.
But when all media is supported by advertising it is inevitable that performers like Rush, Levin, Hannitty and all the rest must create a persona in order to form a bond with their audience. High ratings is a measure that they’ve done that well, not that they know what they’re talking about or have any special knowledge or expertise. “Sports Talk” is a perfect example.
Fox News, Limbaugh, Levin ... have heaped slovenly, starry-eyed adoration on Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoLlKmQSHU
This sort of emotionally histrionic bile laced attack from a a nobody at Red State on the decade long Conservative leaders like Limbaugh is infantile and stupid poltics.
Screaming in hysterics at people then expecting them to change to your candidate is moronic political tactics.
My indictment of the so-called “conservative media” would be entirely different:
1) They completely failed to understand the Trump phenomenon-—what ISSUES he was appealing on, why those ISSUES were important, and why NO ONE else, even Cruz, really could be trusted on those ISSUES.
2) They have completely misread Trump’s “unfavorables” (see Stephen the idiot Hayes and his comments today on Twitter), and continue to do so. Since he is not a politician, traditional political “unfavorability” ratings are meaningless. He is a celebrity, and his “unfavorables” as the guy who says “You’re fired” must be viewed like those of Richard Petty, or J.R. Ewing, or “the Undertaker” in WWF-—characters you boo, who have “unfavorables,” who nevertheless are virtually adored. It’s because people understand a “character” and a real person. Trump the real person connects. There is absolutely NO other explanation for why his poll numbers are so incredibly high.
3) Only Rush Limbaugh, in ALL the “conservative media,” has really tried to get into what is happening and for the most part he’s doing a great job. He understands this isn’t about switching out guys at the top. This is a revolution against “the system” and the whole elite, “inside-the-club” way of doing things. Cruz is IN the club. He may be relegated to the cloakroom he’s so unpopular, but he is in the club.
4) ALL the conservative media except Rush and maybe Hannity and Levin face potential loss of serious dollars if Trump wins. Their “beltway” contacts would be useless, their “inside sources” wouldn’t be talking and they and their pals won’t get jobs in the White House press office (Dana Perrino). They see their $$ flying away.
“For months, Levin couldn’t stop talking of Trump’s brilliant strategy, how he was tapping into conservative angst. He wasn’t PC and the so-called establishment couldn’t stand it!”
Basically all of the people complaining about Trump today, were cheering him on last fall.
They arrogantly saw Trump as a cheap weapon against the GOPe they couldn’t manage to defeat in the past. They all just assumed that Trump would just fade out on his own (because reasons), leaving it wide-open for Cruz.
When that didn’t happen, then they got “mad” and decided to go after Trump, again arrogantly think that they actually have real power and influence. By that time it was far too late, and the public just saw them as snarky control freaks, that think they can order people around, holding their conservatism above their heads.
Even if we get tricked by Trump and he doesn’t build a wall, stop unfair trade, etc. at least we were tricked by a professional prostitute and not one of the usual GOP sluts.
Let’s make America great again.
I have “Red State” fatigue.
Trump would be a WAY better ‘Rat POTUS than H->!.
There are two completely different political philosophies — Conservatism and Trumpism.
Conservatism stands for a particular set of principles, while Trumpism stands for nothing except what its namesake, Donald Trump, thinks is good for himself at any particular moment — including attacking Conservatives like Ben Carson and Ted Cruz in an effort to destroy them.
Conservative principles can’t survive if Conservative candidates are destroyed.
Which means that Donald Trump has become a human wrecking ball for the future of Conservatism in America.
The Mark Levins and Rush Limbaughs of the media must take sides. There is no middle way. They’re either for Conservatism or for Donald Trumpism, which is the mortal enemy of Conservatism.
I’d rather support a Trump who can win than another milque-toast moderate who can’t. The GOP has been so intimidated by the leftist media they won’t put up a candidate who has the guts to confront political correctness. This election, we have Trump and Cruz who at least appear to have actual back bones, even though The Donald is a bit of an orangutan.
It really damages a writer's credibility when she doesn't know the difference between "who's" (contraction of "who is") and "whose" (genitive pronoun).