Posted on 10/16/2017 4:20:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: And, ladies and gentlemen, before we hit the break, I need to announce that I have been the recipient of one of the greatest honors of my broadcast career. I cannot tell you how honored I am and proud and happy I am at not being included on a list of prominent conservatives. Salon.com, in an effort to advise their readers on diversity, has published a list of conservatives primarily in print — bloggers, websites, magazines. There might be some people in there that also do commentary on TV as “Republican strategists” or what have you. I think it’s 25 people.
Twenty-five conservatives Salon.com assures their audience they can safely read and not have an adverse reaction. Salon.com wants to be known as a liberal publication that promotes diversity, and they have become very sensitive to the factual that conservatism is persona non grata at any level of the Drive-By Media, and so they’re breaking new ground, and they researched conservatism carefully. And they have found 25 conservatives that it is safe to read, on Twitter, or Facebook, or on their blogs and websites. And I, ladies and gentlemen, am not on this list — and it is one of the greatest honors I have ever been bestowed to not be on an approved list of approved conservatives by a liberal publication.
Every one of these approved conservatives has one thing in common: They hate Donald Trump. They despise Donald Trump. Some of them are actually, other than that, pretty good. Some of them are actually genuine conservatives. But they all hate Trump. And, as such, they have been honored by Salon.com as approved conservatives. This illustrates exactly what Beltway media elite intellectual conservatism has become: Pleasing the enemy, gaining the approval of the left, being singled out as above the fray of the rabble of conservatism.
The names are people you would know: Bill Kristol. John Podhoretz. There’s some bloggers on there. I’ve decided I’m not gonna embarrass these people by mentioning their names. If you want to find out who is on the Salon.com approved list of conservatives that Salon readers can safely read without having a suicidal reaction, just go to Salon.com yourself and find out. It’s embarrassing enough to be on the list. I don’t want to add to it by mentioning their names. I just want to tell you how proud and honored I am not to be on it.
Let’s guess:
Charles Krauthammer
Hugh Hewitt
Jonah Goldberg
Your turn!
Three strikes and you’re out.
Completely hilarious list! Supposedly a list of “conservative” commentators who are an absolute MUST for leftist bubble dwellers to follow so they can get a taste of what folks outside of their bubble are thinking.
Every “conservative” on that list are ABSOLUTELY, 100% anti-Trump! In other words, completely fake “conservatives” that are no different at all than the same bubble bunch that leftists normally associate with.
(not to mention that salon freezes my browser.)
Mona Charen
David Brooks
Fred Barnes
George Will
Peggy Noonan
Michael Medved
Okay, so I went there and I’ve never heard of most of those people. And yeah, the page is unbearably slow even with a powerful computer.
Would anybody want these guys on your side during a street fight?
I’m surprised that they did not have David Gergen on that list. Mind you, I’ve heard that listening to Gergen can be used as an alternative to administering ipecac syrup to someone.
Yes, a group of real nobodies along with some has-beens like William Kristol and David Frum from the disastrous Bush White House, and some former McCain campaign staffers. Not people you’d want to hang out with.
Jennifer Rubin make the list?
Republicans all, conservatives, hardly.
I’ve seen fewer steaming piles in a 40 acre pasture than in that Salon piece...
If you'd said Bill Kristol, John Podhoretz, David Frum, and Ana Novarro, you'd be rounding home now.
Mona Charen
David Brooks
Fred Barnes
George Will
Peggy Noonan
Michael Medved
The key word here is "twitter": "The 25 conservatives actually worth following on Twitter."
Most of those old guys don't have twitter, or the article author wasn't aware of them or thought they'd died already or weren't liberal enough.
About 1/2 to 2/3 of these people I never heard of, or only just barely heard of.
Kilgore Trout
Atticus Goldfinch
Tim Carlson
Tim Miller
Ana Navarro
Richard W. Painter
Jennifer Rubin
Ben Howe
Brandt
Ken White, Popehat
Haley Byrd
Josh Jordan
Bill Kristol
John Weaver
Tom Nichols
Allahpundit
Kat Timpf
Stuart Stevens
Noah Rothman
Jay Caruso
Rick Wilson
S.E. Cupp
John Podhoretz
David Frum
Stephen Hayes
All propagandists for the Cheap Labor Express
See the connection....they are all for this endless, massive third world immigration invasion. Anyone who thinks the invasion is an accident is kidding themselves.
Tim Miller as well...Jeb Bush flack and sodomy enthusiast.
Never heard of most, the few I’ve heard of at mainly never-Trumpers.
Mickey Kaus?
I don’t know half these people! Kilgore Trout?! SJ Perleman couldn’t make up a name like that.
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