perfidy

Blogdom started out liberal. After 9/11, there was a large influx of the conservative "warbloggers" and the older liberal sites were upset that their medium was being stolen.

Ok. And isn't it now preponderantly conservative, especially among the bigwigs?

Don't get snitty, I was just offering background.

Drudge has a transcript of an interview he did, which has some interesting perspectives on the new media and the Reagan thingy as well, [url=http://www.drudgereport.com/flash9rr.htm]here[/url]

Sorry. I guess the gay homosexual conspiracy mind control chip in my head is acting up again over Kim duToit's bubbleheaded rant.

Interesting interview. I am glad that the piece will air on Showtime, and I am serious about two things: 1) it's no use conservatives claiming they are victims of a vast left-wing conspiracy anymore; and 2) if it's such a problem, why don't they make their own Reagan movie?

Finally, I apologize for getting all snitty about Kim duToit's little rant as well, as its both tiresome and predictible of me to do so, but it's rare that someone invites ridicule so openly: "C'mon boy! Kick me in the jimmy! Kick me in the Jimmy"

One thing Kim DID get right was his connection between "pussification" and tolerance for malfeasance. Seems kids aren't plain punished anymore, as opposed to given time-outs or required to explain how they felt when they did that bad thing. WTF?!

Example: A man I used to work with once explained why he didn't smoke. It was because his father caught him sneaking a smoke once, behind the garage, as a child. Dad grabbed him, brought him in, and made him EAT every cigarette in the pack. Never smoked again. He ended up in Special Forces and served in Gulf War I: Phantom Menace. Does it get more manly than that? Not sure if there's quite a clear cause/effect there between being forced to eat cigarettes and being a manly man, but damn. Just, damn.

Wouldn't you or I or alot of guys have been done a favor if our dad (those of us who had one) had given out a few good thorough asswhippings when we f--ked up, instead of mom covering for it?

My parents were entirely too easy on me. I was a long time in learning lessons as an adult I should have learned as a child. I know it's a hard line to place - to strike a proper balance between tolerance for typical child foolishness and inculcating some hard lessons. Happily, at this point my son is too young for it to be an issue yet, but it won't be long before my wife and I will have to start looking for that line.

GL, I think that's true, to a point. The big problem with rants like Kim's is that they start from defensible positions-- kids aren't punished these days! the culture is growing unfriendly to certain traditional modes of male behavior!-- and then speed off into moonbat territory.

I agree with KdT that kids need firmer guidance these days. But what I don't buy is the monocausality he assigns to "pussification". There's all kinds of reasons why children these days are more insolent and skeptical than before: a wide array of media choices gives them a bullshit sensor before they know how to use it; the rise in litigation against teachers who actually discipline students; all those dumb parenting manuals of the '70s finally bearing fruit.

My dad actually did hand out the asswhippings when I deserved it (and ONLY when I deserved it!). I'm very grateful he did. My sense of right and wrong are keen, and my ethical sense is well developed. On the other hand, I have a real weaknesses for baking bread, Italian shoes and suits, and expensive hair product.

that last comment should end with another cheapshot at KimdT: ".... so I guess by those lights, my dad just didn't beat me hard enough."

IIRC, Kim is from South Africa.

Even worse. They used to be Dutch.

The Brits didn't find the Boers too pussified back in 1902.

One thing about the vast liberal media - while conservatives have always had their magazines and journals, and for the last fifteen years or so they have had AM talk radio, and very recently there has been the exploson of blogs and the arrival of FOXNews - all of these media (except for Fox) have one thing in common - they are still at the edges of the media universe. The center is the three traditional broadcast networks, CBS, ABC, NBC; and the NYTimes and the Washington Post. This is the default media environment. It is still very liberal as this hooforaw demonstrates.

The thing about the explosion of conservative media is that it grew to meet a need that the core media was not satisfying. But still, the conservative media is something that conservatives must seek out. Liberals simply do not have exposure to the conservative media in the same way that conservatives are saturated with liberal media.