Entries Tagged as 'Conservatism of resentment'

Professional Outrage Merchants

June 19th, 2009 · No Comments

We’re going to get briefly into this in the print edition this week, but worth noting here as well. The story of the Letterman “protest” fascinates me for a lot of reasons - the paltry turnout and what it means being a big one. But also telling is the fact that the protest would not […]

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Palin vs. Letterman vs. the outrage

June 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Hm, what a shocker.
So if you’ve been following the David Letterman-Sarah Palin business, you know that the right is in full professional OUTRAGE!!! mode. This is what they do; the only glue holding the conservative movement together is its resentment, its perpetual sense of victimhood. In this case there’s a legitimate reason for that grievance;Letterman’s […]

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