''How to be a right wing pundit in 12 easy lessons''

yellowtimes.org ^ | 7/7/2002 | Matt Osborne (Who?)

[Doc-Joe]

I found this posted on another conservative website and it brought a little chuckle. I suppose there is a little "Coulter envy" behind this. I thought a few of my fellow FReepers with a little time on their hands might like to have a go at shredding this (shouldn't be to hard).

[LiteKeeper]

When you have nothing legitimate to say, throw stones at the ones that do...and be sure to build aa big a straw man as you can. This is just Liberal hog wash.

[Sam Cree]

Sounds like these guys don't have much respect for the founding fathers. Kind of says it all.

[opticoax]

I loved his "How to be a Self-Righteous Prick" article, but this one left me flat.

[dighton]

I found this posted on another conservative website and it brought a little chuckle.

Not knocking you personally, but if Yellow Times is a conservative website, I'm Edmund Burke.

[SoothingDave]

7.) Call everything "spin."

8.) Spin everything.

Um, doesn't he contradict himself? He first holds that the RWPs are bad for "calling everything spin" then he himself calls everything they say "spin"

SD

[Doc-Joe]

It was posted by a lib trying to stir up the locals.

[ChicagoGuy]

Most of this list is hogwash, but I think he's right on the money with item 12 on "state's rights".

[Smile-n-Win]

I suppose there is a little "Coulter envy" behind this.

ROFL You nailed it, Joe!

[Doc-Joe]

Found here: http://pub104.ezboard.com/famericanconservativefrm1.showMessage?topicID=860.topic

[Smile-n-Win]

Government is big, and it takes away your money. This is why people don't like it. By constantly reminding them of this, you can cut any program you dislike in order to "make government smaller."

The first two sentences are true. I wish the third were true as well!

[Lurking Libertarian]

Most of this list is hogwash, but I think he's right on the money with item 12 on "state's rights".

I agree.

[amused]

Most of this list is hogwash, but I think he's right on the money with item 12 on "state's rights"

I'll second that with the exception that it is more GOP related than conservative as expressed on this forum.

[gcruse]

This is just Liberal hog wash.

What is incorrect about the following?

When a state "fights" to prevent the legal sale of vibrators,
or gay sex, marriage, and adoption, it's time to talk about "states'
rights." But when states allow medical marijuana use, physician-
assisted suicide, or any other part of the "liberal" agenda, the
states have no rights. The only 'rights' states should have is the Right's rights!
 
 

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Not only Coulter-envy...but the left finds her very attractive. She's as thin as a model, smart as a whip, and wears cute clothes. And...she's one of ours! I think the left...who are the worst womanizers I've ever seen...really have a crush on our Annie.

[moodyskeptic]

This guy is not nearly as clever as he imagines himself. Brevity is not his strong suit. And he's revealing some things about the Demo talking points that we're bound to see repeated soon:

Liberals never identify themselves as such, the new moniker is Progressive.

Radical Right is the new phrase.

They'll be attacking Family Values as hopelessly passe.

They'll be blaming Isreal more.

They are gonna drive home the "Pubs are only for giving tax breaks to rich corporations angle... look for it.

Thanks for the advance warning!

[Doc-Joe]

I think the lines that stood out the most were:

It can even cut those "unnecessary" programs (education, the environment, and so forth)

(Hasn't Bush done more for education than Clinton did, or more than Gore proposed?)

Don't worry about facts. Those can be manufactured for you by careful statistical analysis of media. For example, it's always possible to point out that TV and newspapers identify "conservatives" more often than liberals.

"Slander" was meticulously footnoted. I fail to see any references supporting this author's inane babbling.

The media is liberal, the courts are liberal, and the education system is liberal.

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the NEA just get nailed for something. What was that again?

[toupsie]

has a large family living in the shadow of Helen Keller's Alabama home

Figures...Blind, Deaf and Dumb author.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

And American minorities, especially Blacks, are [...] discriminated against, and sodomized with nightsticks.

Wow, this is powerful stuff!!!

Shouldn't they make a movie about this? Or at least a few political commercials? It brings to mind the cops from the Jailhouse Rock video.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

What is incorrect about the following?

Exactly.

I still have to meet 'a minority' NOT sodomized with a nightstick by the... Majority? In any case, anyone who can think of himself 'a minority' must be acting 'as if' sodomized with a nightstick.