The mainstream media’s favorite “conservatives”
The NY Post’s Kyle Smith has a hilarious piece caricaturing the media’s favorite “conservatives” … essentially “conservatives” who don’t like authentic conservatives. A snippet:
Dear Mainstream Media:
I’m a conservative who believes that other conservatives are fat, drug-stuffed, money-grubbing warthogs like Rush Limbaugh, or scary inbred backwoods retards like Sarah Palin.
So can I please be your go-to guy whenever you need a conservative viewpoint?
When you assemble an op-ed page or a panel discussion that has three or four liberal commentators – plus a liberal moderator (if this is TV) or a liberal news section (if this is print) – I volunteer to be the one voice you allow to speak for the loyal opposition.
I am available to write cover stories for Newsweek, hold down the other side of the New York Times op-ed seesaw against Paul Krugman and Co., or fill in whenever David Gergen is unavailable to supply analysis of President Obama’s next magnifiquent speech for CNN.
I promise that the only conservatives I will ever praise will be safely dead (Churchill, Reagan, or, if this is PBS, Edmund Burke).
Sample phrases with which I plan to begin my columns:
“As a conservative, I am deeply troubled by the comments of (name of conservative), who just this week said (conservative things).”
Please read the whole thing.
Are you paying attention, David Brooks and Kathleen Parker?
(Via Don Surber)
Cross-posted to Right Wing News, where I am helping guestblog for John Hawkins on Sundays.