South Park Conservatives

by Brian C. Anderson

For decades, conservatives have lamented the Left's stranglehold on the institutions of opinion and information. Liberal opinion makers have presented their views as rock-solid truth, sweeping aside ideas and beliefs they don't like as unworthy of argument -- and because they controlled the media, no one has been able to challenge them. Until now.

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Anderson tells the whole story of these momentous events, and explains their repercussions in full. He exposes the workings of the old media regime -- in particular, the invective-filled but empty style of argument that it allowed the Left get away with for so long, and which has grown even more hysterical as the new media have rendered it less effective. He explains how, almost overnight, conservatives have mastered the proliferating new media of talk radio, cable television, and the Internet, and they have benefited from a big shift in book publishing too. The result? No longer do the New York Times, the big networks, and the rest of the elite liberal media have the monolithic power to set the terms of the nation's political and cultural debate.

South Park Conservatives also examines another dimension to the transformation -- one that is less immediately political than it is cultural. The new media, he explains, have nourished a fiercely anti-liberal comedic spirit, as typified by Comedy Central's cartoon series South Park. Although vulgar and anarchic, this series is fiercely politically incorrect: it has mocked -- with scathing wit -- hate-crime laws and sexual harassment policies, liberal celebrities, abortion-rights extremists, and other shibboleths of the Left. This anti-Left ethos, as Anderson details here, is particularly appealing to the young, however much it might offend older conservatives. "By no means," he says, "has the Right conquered popular culture. But it's no longer a liberal monopoly: a new post-liberal counterculture has emerged."

Anderson introduces you to some young conservatives, and even shows that the forces that are reshaping the information landscape are beginning to influence campus life, too -- the last place that conservatives believed the Left's power would remain inviolate. The change isn't coming from faculty or school officials, but from self-organizing students and innovative outside groups, who are taking advantage of the new media to open the schools to conservative currents of thought.

Why the media elite is more insecure than ever:

• A rare glimpse behind the curtain during a CNN appearance by media watchdog Brent Bozell that reveals the media establishment's visceral dislike of conservatism

• Proof: In virtually every respect, the political and moral views that dominate the media elite have been and remain out of sync with those of the American people

• Liberal, but unbiased? Nope: evidence showing that, intentionally or unconsciously, the press corps' liberal values invariably influence the way they report the news

• How liberal bias is perhaps at its most egregious in war reporting -- at least when it's a Republican president doing the warring

• How the liberals' mainstream-media-sheltered habit of censoring and discrediting conservative views is a relic of the 1960s' New Left

• The cartoon South Park: profane and vulgar, yes, but also clear evidence that the Left's vice-like grip on youth culture is weakening

• "Racist," "homophobe," "sexist," "mean-spirited," "insensitive": the ugly habit of Leftists to dismiss conservative ideas as if they don't deserve a hearing and are simply examples of extremism and bigotry - and why this well-worn tactic is increasingly failing

• How talk radio has given the Right in all its varieties a chance to break through the liberal monoculture and get heard

• Why talk radio continues to be dominated by conservatives, despite repeated attempts by liberals to break through

• How, unable to prosper in talk radio, liberals have taken to denouncing it as a threat to democracy -- an attitude that characterizes the Left's response to the new media in general

• Why the advent of cable TV has been perhaps an even bigger boon to the Right than talk radio (and how Rupert Murdoch's FOX News Channel has been the biggest boon of all)

• How FOX News' refusal to march to the liberal beat has enabled it to outflank competitors on stories they get wrong or miss entirely because of bias

• How the Internet is shaking liberal media dominance -- and why the elitist contempt for Internet news sources is misplaced

• Conservative publishing: growing so fast, even the most tenaciously knee-jerk liberal bookstores and distributors have had to take notice

• Conservatives on campus: enterprising students and groups who are beginning to loosen the Left's iron hold on academe

• Rathergate and other irrefutable proof of the mainstream media's transparent politicking during the 2004 presidential race

Warning: reference material contains some unsavory material and language.

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As a recent tech school grad I can honestly say that I have seen almost everything South Park Conservatives discusses in action! This book is an eye-opening look at the way my generation is taking over American culture. PC is on it's way out, and common sense is making a comeback (just not with the same level of class that you would hope for). We may be uncultered, but we aren't stupid.