tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post1415372810500239740..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: 'McCain's right, of course . . .'Robert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-31808873344943903282009-03-16T22:35:00.000-04:002009-03-16T22:35:00.000-04:00Stacy,Re Kathleen Parker, right on!: I was but new...Stacy,<BR/><BR/>Re Kathleen Parker, right on!: I was but newly conservative in October 2008 and yet, more than once, made the time to e-mail Kathryn Lopez at NRO about firing Kathleen Parker. Here's a sample from 10/31/2008:<BR/><BR/>Dear Ms. Lopez:<BR/><BR/>Why does the National Review Online continue to besmirch its pixels with the mush-mouthed maunderings of Kathleen Parker? She has gone over to the Dark Side, she is a minion of the Axelrod of Evil!<BR/><BR/>The gay men at HillBuzz, Hillary PUMAs who are now campaigning for John McCain, would call Parker an "Eeyore" because she has swallowed the Obamedia's story line hook, line and sinker and now goes about spreading doom and gloom. OK, this week it was equivocation, ass-covering and gloom, but you get my point.<BR/><BR/>Parker has even made it to one of Iowahawk's parodies, along with her sister in Eeyore-dom, Peggy Noonan, and NRO's own apostate, Christopher Buckley. That means people have gone past getting angry with her because they disagree and moved on to disrespecting her opinion. Isn't the next stop after that questioning the judgment of people who continue to respect her, as evidenced by continuing to publish her?<BR/><BR/>Yours truly,<BR/><BR/>Cynthia YockeyCynthia Yockeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16023700062312770924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-2488455507557074392009-03-16T18:41:00.000-04:002009-03-16T18:41:00.000-04:00Re: Kathleen Parker (and the newspapers, in genera...Re: Kathleen Parker (and the newspapers, in general), I have some questions: when are you conservatives going to have the balls to <B>ignore</B> the LA and NY Times? CNN? MSNBC? The Guardian? ...Especially when it comes to whoever <I>they</I> decide is a conservative.<BR/><BR/>I don't mean <I>totally</I> ignore them, but why do you keep giving them any credibility as "news" organizations? Why are the likes of Mitch McConnell, John Boenher, Michael Steele, and other so called "conservative leaders" always putting interviews with these phony propagandists ahead of interviews with capable writers?<BR/><BR/>Why are people like Hugh Hewitt always giving the papers advice on how to succeed in the new reality, when the honorable, decent thing to do would be to just.let.them.die?<BR/><BR/>Why do so many exceptional writers and bloggers seem to go out of their way to honor the myth of "journalism?", when it's rarely been on display since the days of James Callender and his ilk?<BR/><BR/>We are in the age where the byline is the brand. Not only do you have to "write for money" as Stacy always points out he is doing, but you have to market and sell your writing yourself. (Yeah, hook up with whoever helps you, and use Amazon.com and other sources, but do the real work yourself.) That's the new reality. (BTW, It's time to buy his book.)<BR/><BR/>As Gabriel Malor posted over at AoS-HQ, you can read up on this new reality <A HREF="http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/" REL="nofollow">here</A>. <BR/><BR/>(an excerpt)<BR/>"The competition-deflecting effects of printing cost got destroyed by the internet, where <I>everyone pays for the infrastructure, and then everyone gets to use it.</I> And when Wal-Mart, and the local Maytag dealer, and the law firm hiring a secretary, and that kid down the block selling his bike, were all able to use that infrastructure to get out of their old relationship with the publisher, they did. They’d never really signed up to fund the Baghdad bureau anyway."<BR/><BR/>(italics mine)<BR/><BR/>So why not man up, and start treating the losers like they lost? It's time to start respecting real writers and information providers as Worthy Of Attention, and let the dead-enders wander off to their elephant graveyards to lie among their betters.<BR/><BR/>[ We'll examine the problem of always referring to people like Ms. Parker, David Brooks and David Frum as "conservative" some other time.<BR/>I'm not a conservative, but I have to caucus with you morons (and I mean that in the "friendly" way, so go pound sand) to help keep the country from sliding into totalitarianism. I have clear differences with conservatives and Libertarians, just as those bozos do, but you won't see me claiming to represent conservative thinking. ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-83690996883551312652009-03-16T14:52:00.000-04:002009-03-16T14:52:00.000-04:00"McCain's right, of course . . ."Show off."McCain's right, of course . . ."<BR/><BR/>Show off.Dan Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18003419431016626023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-67107318432870045522009-03-16T14:37:00.000-04:002009-03-16T14:37:00.000-04:00What is so hard to understand about offering A Cho...What is so hard to understand about offering A Choice, Not An Echo? <BR/><BR/>Words to live by.<BR/><BR/>If we liked the Democrats so god-damned much, we'd be Democrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-13286441529728468462009-03-16T07:51:00.000-04:002009-03-16T07:51:00.000-04:00Parker writes: "A younger generation, meanwhile, h...Parker writes: "A younger generation, meanwhile, has little understanding or appreciation of the relationship between a free press and a free society."<BR/><BR/>Oh really? Give this a read, Kat:<BR/>http://blog.ericreasons.com/2009/03/cato.html<BR/><BR/>I'll let this stew all day while I'm at work, and come up with a thorough beat-down this evening. Way to get my blood flowing first thing on a Monday morning, RSM.Eric Reasonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688830134012824642noreply@blogger.com