Comments on: Color Me Unimpressed, New York Times

By: Charles K. Stronheim

Charles K. Stronheim — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:36:54 +0000

Ross Douthat is not a conservative?

Have you read any Douthat? Seriously.

Not that anecdote is substitute for data or anything, but the man went skinny-dipping with William F. Buckley for chrissakes.

Effete, sure.

Elite, absolutely.

But not a conservative?

FAIL.

By: thirteen28

thirteen28 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:29:20 +0000

"Douthat is 30 years old. All he’s ever done is write. He’s lived in the relatively upscale enclaves of Connecticut and Washington, DC. He hasn’t had any real dealings with the “working class” he’s been praised for writing about. My guess is that he’s never had to sweat a rent payment in his life. He’s not had reason to be thankful there was a Walmart around where he could get the stuff he needed cheaply. That’s fine. If you can live that sort of life, more power to you. That’s not the sort of upbringing that’s going to breed a willingness to throw the necessary sharp elbow, which is what we conservatives need right now. Heck, he’s barely willing to admit that just perhaps Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter might have something important to say in our national debate."

You could have not possibly said it better in that paragraph. Well done.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:52:29 +0000

It's what MSM "conservatives" do. That's how they get the gigs in the first place.

By: Wendy Herman

Wendy Herman — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:33:46 +0000

Dead on analysis. I'm just sick to death of supposed conservatives that do nothing but trash talk the real conservatives. Just another reason to ignore the New York Times.