Klavan on the Long Game

Andrew Klavan writes a correct and insightful autopsy on how the republic has come to the point where the sleaziest and stupidest of political tactics can persuade more than half the nation to vote away their legacy for a mess of pottage. http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon1107ak.html

Allow me to quote at length:

… to create an electorate more deeply committed to true liberty and resistant to the sort of cultural scare tactics the president’s campaign team used so effectively, there are three areas to which conservatives need to commit intellectual and financial resources—three areas that our intelligentsia and funders, in their impractical practicality, too often ignore.

The mainstream news media. Major news outlets, like ABC, NBC, CBS, and the still influential New York Times have now become so ideologically corrupt that they are engaging in the sort of Nixonian cover-ups they once prided themselves on exposing. Their studied creation of non-scandal scandals and non-gaffe gaffes on the right and their active suppression of such true scandals as Fast and Furious and Benghazi on the left amount to journalistic malpractice on behalf of the state.

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