Post by philunderwood on Mar 20, 2011 9:11:49 GMT -5
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The beginnings of change: Lee Stranahan
Here’s a very interesting article from Lee Stranahan, a liberal who’s starting—just starting—to get the picture. I’m not sure how far he’ll go with his change experience, but at the moment he is surprised and perturbed that the liberal media has virtually ignored the death threats aimed at Republicans during the Wisconsin demonstrations.
This passage of his reminds me of the early stages of my own change:
My experience in the last few months tells me what I would not have believed possible; on any number of issues (including Pigford, by the way) I’ve seen liberals act much nastier and with less factual honesty than the conservatives… and this includes on issues where I disagree with conservatives.
Keep going, Mr. Stranahan, if you dare. You may be on the cusp of some more profound surprises. My change really began with the fact that, once I was exposed through the internet to conservative periodicals, I noticed they tended on the whole to be more factual and fair and be better prognosticators than the liberal press. It was a profound shock, and was followed by more shocks.
From this passage, it’s clear that this may be the first time in a long while—perhaps in his life—that Stranahan has had so much contact with conservatives [emphasis mine]:
I’m in an odd position. In the last few months, I’ve had one foot in the left wing news stream and one foot in the right. My media duality began when conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart hired me to work with him on the Pigford ‘black farmers’ settlement story. I’m a pro-choice, pro-single payer, anti-war, pro-gay rights independent liberal with years of work in print and film backing those positions. Breitbart hired me to bring a different perspective to the non-partisan issue of corruption in Pigford.
Since then, I’ve written both here for the left-leaning Huffington Post and at Breitbart’s right leaning BigGovernment.com. I’ve ended up reading a lot more conservative sites and dealing firsthand with a lot more conservatives than any time since I attended a high school dedicated to the principles of Ayn Rand about 30 years ago.
That sounds like a rather unique high school, by the way.
Stranahan asks, “Is this really what liberalism has come to in 2011?” My answer is “yes, but it came to it quite some time ago, I’m afraid.”
Posted by neo-neocon
The beginnings of change: Lee Stranahan
Here’s a very interesting article from Lee Stranahan, a liberal who’s starting—just starting—to get the picture. I’m not sure how far he’ll go with his change experience, but at the moment he is surprised and perturbed that the liberal media has virtually ignored the death threats aimed at Republicans during the Wisconsin demonstrations.
This passage of his reminds me of the early stages of my own change:
My experience in the last few months tells me what I would not have believed possible; on any number of issues (including Pigford, by the way) I’ve seen liberals act much nastier and with less factual honesty than the conservatives… and this includes on issues where I disagree with conservatives.
Keep going, Mr. Stranahan, if you dare. You may be on the cusp of some more profound surprises. My change really began with the fact that, once I was exposed through the internet to conservative periodicals, I noticed they tended on the whole to be more factual and fair and be better prognosticators than the liberal press. It was a profound shock, and was followed by more shocks.
From this passage, it’s clear that this may be the first time in a long while—perhaps in his life—that Stranahan has had so much contact with conservatives [emphasis mine]:
I’m in an odd position. In the last few months, I’ve had one foot in the left wing news stream and one foot in the right. My media duality began when conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart hired me to work with him on the Pigford ‘black farmers’ settlement story. I’m a pro-choice, pro-single payer, anti-war, pro-gay rights independent liberal with years of work in print and film backing those positions. Breitbart hired me to bring a different perspective to the non-partisan issue of corruption in Pigford.
Since then, I’ve written both here for the left-leaning Huffington Post and at Breitbart’s right leaning BigGovernment.com. I’ve ended up reading a lot more conservative sites and dealing firsthand with a lot more conservatives than any time since I attended a high school dedicated to the principles of Ayn Rand about 30 years ago.
That sounds like a rather unique high school, by the way.
Stranahan asks, “Is this really what liberalism has come to in 2011?” My answer is “yes, but it came to it quite some time ago, I’m afraid.”
Posted by neo-neocon