Posted by
AJH on Thursday, March 05, 2009 5:30:20 AM
Emmett Tyrrell, editor of The American Spectator, ends a recent article with the best summation of the never-ending Rush-White House saga. It's a bit long-winded and he loves using very big words. However, the last few paragraphs are terrific.
“Conservatives become acceptable when they disparage conservatives.”
[T]he controversy demonstrates anew the validity of O'Sullivan's Law. [Named after John O'Sullivan, former aide to Margaret Thatcher and former editor of National Review.] According to O'Sullivan's Law, in American culture if one is not firmly conservative, one will fall prey to the liberals who dominate the culture, polluting it with their left-wing politics and creating what I call Kultursmog.
In the smog, various timid conservatives have allowed themselves to become instrumentalities of the Democrats' hoax.
Among these timid folk are Michael Steele and David Frum.
My favorite among the timid conservatives is this Kathleen Parker, a conservative columnist who apparently rose without a trace. Until this autumn, I never had heard of her, and to this day, about the only time one does hear of her is when she is puffing liberal gases into the Kultursmog. In the autumn, she was one of the conservatives sternly critical of Sen. John McCain for his choice of the pulchritudinous Sarah Palin as a running mate. Now she is equally stern in her criticism of the pulchritudinous Limbaugh.
Her presence in the mainstream media is another example of how the political culture works. Conservatives become acceptable when they disparage conservatives. Rush Limbaugh never has taken the coward's way out — and he is very amusing.
John McCain was a media darling for doing just that, until he came up against their new buddy Obama.
AJH