http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/27/the-conservative-media-tries-to-figure-out-what-the-hell-its-doing Comments On: The Conservative Media Tries to Figure Out What the Hell It's Doing by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by venomlash]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:13:43 -0800 The Stranger
I give Erickson credit for not latching onto the easy lie of omission in his editorial on the speech from which the out-of-context sound bite came. The one which Fox News salivated over for months. The one repeated by Romney and Ryan over and over.

His response had some reason to it: clearly part of the success that business people enjoy is based on the system of enterprise created by business, and not by government.

But I fault him for 1) implying that Obama's belief is that government is entirely responsible for a business's success, and then claiming as fact that Obama believes it is more responsible than enterprise, and 2) putting forward his own belief that business owes the government practically nothing. The first is a cheap straw man, yet his entire editorial hangs on it; the second is demonstrably false.

He even brought up that the first roads were privately built out of necessity, while completely ignoring the interstate system, which I assume he believes is necessary to business, yet somehow remained unbuilt until the government stepped in.

He's a hack, but a lot cleverer than most.
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:41:01 -0800 The Stranger
Same thing that happens to you when you post the dumbass fucking shit YOU post.
Posted by Rujax!]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:02:59 -0800 The Stranger Like other truth-tellers in the Republican Party, Erickson...

Sorry. You lost me there.
Posted by DickDave]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:58:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by anon1256]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:04:02 -0800 The Stranger Ok, now tell me what the punishment will be for MacFarlane, the Onion, Alex Baldwin...Lib Media.


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:46:50 -0800 The Stranger
I tend to look at today's GOP as being like the crowd in that scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian", where Brian is trying to convince them that, "you're all unique individuals!", to which the crowd responds in-unison, "We're all unique individuals!" Erickson is just trying to set himself apart by being the one, lone voice who responds with, "I'm not!"
Posted by COMTE]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:45:47 -0800 The Stranger The echo in the chamber has gotten so loud it is not well understood outside the echo chamber in the mainstream press and in the public.

We understand it perfectly well, asshole. That's the problem.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:25:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by PEM]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:27:49 -0800 The Stranger
I love how the Republican party is made up of millions of "lone guns" and "mavericks" who totally buck all trends. Yeah, you and every other Avril Levigne "punk" and mallgoth who shops at hot topic. You're all unique snowflakes.
Posted by undead ayn rand]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:18:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by blip]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:09:37 -0800 The Stranger
Interesting that he's giving the Obamaphone as an example of what's wrong. I wonder what he (or the other redstate editors) had to say when that was being pimped for all it was worth? I'm sure they were either encouraging it themselves, or saying nothing at all, but there's no way they were pointing out the truth about the program.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:09:24 -0800 The Stranger
The problem is simple: whatever conservative ideas that work have already been implemented. The ones that don't work have also been implemented, and all you have to do is look at the facts to realize this. "Trickle-down" economics don't work, pure and simple. Having an effective social safety net makes the country stronger, pure and simple. You can't be a conservative pundit and tell the truth. No matter how you slice it. So they will always be reduced to lying or perpetuating their delusions in some form or other.

And people are getting fed up w/ being lied to.
Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:09:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tshicks]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:00:13 -0800 The Stranger