Posted on 10/03/2006 1:40:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
"Tootsie," "Black Like Me," "Alias" pop culture's filled with daring men and women who alter their identities to infiltrate different groups.
Now Seattle-based NPR personality John Moe has come out with a virtual "Crying Game" of political books: "Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith and Beef Jerky" (William Morrow, $24.95). His hilarious "experiment": shed the trappings of his liberal life and spend a month immersed in conservative culture or rather, stereotypes with the help of a power suit, puffy flag T-shirt and the music of Toby Keith.
I debriefed the radio commentator, 38, as he was settling back into his old life, over frou-frou coffee drinks.
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Q: You watched "conservative" movies?
A: I went online to freerepublic.com, which is a highly conservative, militantly so, Web site, and posted something saying "Raised a liberal, wanting to find out what movies conservatives enjoy, wanting to see if there are movies that could change my mind. Whattaya got?"
I came away from that with a bunch of suggestions. So I went to Blockbuster and got "Red Dawn," "Stand and Deliver," "Dirty Harry," "Forrest Gump," all three "Lord of the Rings" movies and "Patton." And then I would watch those in my down time as I was flying to the Nixon museum in L.A. or the Toby Keith concert in Indianapolis and do write-ups on their persuasiveness
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(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
The gay thing is really not so difficult to figure out. As someone mentioned already here, it's their insistent in-your-face, accept me, I'm normal, you're a homophobe, absurd pleading for acceptance of their deviant behavior that p*sses one off. They're like 2 year-olds throwing a temper tantrum, look-at-me, I want it now and I'm not gonna quit screaming until you give it me.
I really don't care what pleasures you, I just want you to be happy, spare me the details.
~sigh~ ~smacks in the face~
Wag the Dog
Primary Colors
Team America
Anything on Lifetime
The real secret was revealed by the son - his dad just didn't have a "burning" inside his belly for the presidency.
And .. that is what it takes.
Thanks for the link ...very funny.....
Ding ding ding!
hehehe....had to laugh at that one...and yes, i get it. Are you a local?
That question was posed before 9/11.
Well, it was nice of him to try to understand conservatives and acknowledge that the nicest places also happen to be the most conservative places. (I've found that, too. Incidentally, I think Boston is one of the most racist places I've been to.) It was also decent of him to give an honest relection of FR, rather than to pick out the worst nuts in the crowd as an example of conservative. I just think it is funny how liberals think Toby Keith is the typical conservative. I happen to like the guy, but I wonder how many liberals know he was raised and still claims to be a democrat? From what I can tell, he doesn't seem like he was trying to be subvertive, so why ban him. His kind of conversation is the type we need to engage.
I can't wait to see the letters to the editor in the Seattle Times, reacting to his claim that Seattle is where people have been the biggest jerks to him.
Tolkien believed that every generation would have to battle a great evil and if the war was lost, Western Civilization would also be lost.
My favorite line is when Aragorn says, "Men of the West arise!"
You must mean "Team America" without all the blow job scenes.
Actually, the questoion was posed in a thread on May 4, 2005.
There's hope for this guy!!! Maybe not a lot a lot of hope, but hope none the less... :)
Oh -- so you don't think the initial post asking that question was posed by the same guy?
I don't think so. The language of the second posting is the same as cited in the article. Could be, of course. But it seems odd to be writing a think piece about a question you asked six years ago.
He certainly had the right idea simply to ask a couple of straightforward questions to begin with but it is revealing that he had to do so on a public forum rather than, say, an intelligent conservative friend with whom he had already established a trust relationship. Those tend to be somewhat rare in Seattle but hardly nonexistent - he could have had all of his firearms-related questions answered at Wade's Eastside in Bellevue, for example.
But clearly the preference was to theorize - i.e. to imagine - an answer rather than letting the specimens under study to speak for themselves, and I think I know why - such an imagined answer might fit into the fantasy world in which doctrinaire liberals confine themselves mentally and forthright answers direct from the source would not. The one on firearms is an example - it's almost right and entirely wrong. The issue of taking responsibility for one's own life and by extension its self-defense does not occur to him, what does is the ability to kill something. You have to squint pretty hard to equate the two but he manages it.
That said, I am all for promoting discourse between the two sides of the aisle. I just wish it didn't have to be semaphore.
Well, actually the whole nasty scene to boot,
But, any movie that depicts Michael Moore, Sean Penn and the rest of the Hollywood set the way that movie did is okay in my book.
Yesssss -- odd, but hopeful...
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