Conservatives: This Story About Conservatives Makes Us Sound Too Conservative

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Monday, February 01, 2010 at 4:42 pm

On the front page of The Washington Post, Jerry Markon has an excellent, lengthy look at the conservative movement’s newfound — or at least newly invigorated — online organizing. RedState, for example, has long pushed news favorable to candidates liked by the site’s readers, and has long included fundraising appeals, but as Markon points out, an email list launched one year ago quickly swelled from 498 to 70,000 subscribers.

The reception of the story on the right? Not bad, but not altogether thankful. Tim Graham of the Media Research Center took to the Newsbusters blog to attack the story for its nomenclature.

While the Post can do an entire story on a left-wing group like Code Pink and use one liberal label, the most noticeable tic in the Markon story is how many times the word “conservative” appears, and not counting the headline — forty-six.

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chrisjay
Comment posted February 1, 2010 @ 5:38 pm

hmmm, sounds like conservatives are running from the label “conservative” as fast as they can…what's the proper nomenclature these days? teabagger? patriot? dominionist?
Who can keep up?


strangely_enough
Comment posted February 1, 2010 @ 5:48 pm

The delicious irony of people who've spent so much time and energy attempting to turn the word “liberal” into a pejorative complaining about being called “conservatives” as if it, too, now carries it's own pejorative meaning.


24AheadDotCom
Comment posted February 1, 2010 @ 6:12 pm

1. The article is indeed lengthy, but it's only “excellent” in the Weigel-esque hack sense. A real article would follow the money. Don't expect the WaPo to tell their readers about the things Dick Armey does that he probably doesn't want his followers to know about.

2. The charge that the MSM considers “liberals” to be the norm and conservatives to be a different sort of beast is hardly unfair; Weigel is just being a hack again. I don't need to give examples of, for instance, far-left groups being presented as “non-partisan”.

3. I was banned by Red State going on four years ago. That was after posting ~75 posts (not just comments) there over 1.5 years, and they were never able to give me a valid explanation. They also may be violating my copyright and may have committed conversion; perhaps I'll follow up on that one of these days.


Swami_Binkinanda
Comment posted February 1, 2010 @ 8:41 pm

It is Carroll personified to call Conservatives such-they conserve nothing.


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mantis
Comment posted February 2, 2010 @ 1:17 pm

Perhaps they realized you were a crazy birthtard spambot? Even the morons at RedState have standards (I guess).


ellid
Comment posted February 3, 2010 @ 4:35 pm

Perhaps they realized you were paranoid, and banned you?

Also, please stop trying to send people to your silly little web site, at least until you've done a serious upgrade.


ellid
Comment posted February 3, 2010 @ 9:35 pm

Perhaps they realized you were paranoid, and banned you?

Also, please stop trying to send people to your silly little web site, at least until you've done a serious upgrade.


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