re: #357 Killgore Trout

No it’s not. Why do you object to LGF highlighting the associations of counterjihad bloggers and European Neonazis?

Another “when did you stop beating your wife” example.

Newsflash: intelligent people on both (all three if you’re Jewish) sides of an argument don’t need someone to “represent them” unless you’re talking about political representation where it’s required.

You and those who are perseverating about Rush Limpdick, Glenn Bonehead, and the others are making them the leaders of those who haven’t necessarily chosen them. They’re entertainers and they take your outrageous outrage with them to the bank.

So do Olbermann and his side. They’re less successful, in my opinion, because their voices are more diffused in a dinosaur media which frequently leans their way.

To answer your question, no one always represents me. I honestly seldom turn on the television or listen to talk radio (I’ve never seen or heard more than a few minutes of a Limbaugh or Beck program) and prefer to read opinions on all sides online (LGF’s linkviewer is very good) and via friends with whom I maintain an email correspondence. I enjoy editorials particularly and visit RealClearPolitics daily.

As I have written, I lean to the right. I frequently agree with the views of Charles Krauthammer, Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, and Jonah Goldberg, to name a few. But they don’t “represent” me.

I think those who make claims that Alex Jones or Glenn Beck or (name your favorite bogeyman) represent the right are being very simplistic. Reading and laughing at a column doesn’t make one agree with all or even most of someone’s complete point of view.

As I’ve written, and unfortunately can’t seem to get through to you, is that you are making these people, mostly entertainers who make a great living from fomenting controversy, into de facto leaders of those who haven’t chosen them.