April 11, 2007

Most Clueless Op-Ed Lede of the Year

Here's columnist Thomas Sowell, who has apparently never watched Fox News Channel ("You'll be outraged by our next story!") or listened to talk radio, on why the left seems to have a monopoly on anger:

"Can you remember seeing a Republican expressing outrage?
Democrats express outrage 24/7. Ted Kennedy alone has expressed more outrage than the entire Republican Party.
Democrats can lie their way around the world before Republicans can manage to mumble the truth.
The case for conservatism cannot be too hard to articulate. Talk radio is dominated by articulate conservative talk show hosts.
Yea, that's the problem with the right these days. Not enough outrage. Because it's not like the constant fomenting of anger in their audience is the primary objective of conservative media itself. Even if you're a conservative true believer, you must admit that much of the Rove/Ailes strategy consists of keeping people angry and harnessing that anger for electoral/ratings victory.

Posted by Stephen Silver at April 11, 2007 04:18 PM
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