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Would you become a right-wing blogger if the money was good?
Posted by satijournal • 7/09/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Rush Limbaugh recently signed a new contract where he'll be paid some $45 million a year.
If you could make good money, say even $50,000 a year as a right-wing blogger, would you do it?
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whats a right wing blogger-
Someone who's sole purpose is to promote the right-wing agenda.
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whats the right wing agenda
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what's a blog? what's the internet? what's a computer?
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I honestly have no idea what right wing is
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It's one flapping side of a bird, Chris. Silly!! -
thats the only right wing I know. I just thought it was a normal question
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No!-
"What is the larger agenda behind the amazingly aggressive right wing moves coming from the White House? IMO the right wing agenda has three main points, each of which has precedents in earlier Republican and Democratic Administrations but which have been pushed to a qualitatively new level."
The New Right Wing Agenda
by Steven E. Miller
www.commondreams.org/views03/0613-02.htm
(1) Fundamentally change the role of government. In the Nation a couple weeks ago, this was described as going back to President McKinley. In other words, stripping government of all social welfare functions and all economic regulatory activity. Instead, government would revert to the sole role of protecting property and sovereignty through the use of its police/military power. ...
(2) Fundamentally shifting the burden of taxation from capital (including profits and all forms of “unearned” income) to consumption. The eventual goal is to eliminate all capital gains, inheritance, and corporate taxes, as well as the entire income tax. Before that, it means finding ways to exempt as much as possible – starting with those aspects that primarily hit the “investing classes” (i.e. – the rich). Radical and repeated tax cuts help create deficits (re-enforcing the first strategic goal). They also make taxation increasingly regressive, putting ever-larger burdens on working families and the poor. Since this is happening at the same time that services provided by government to those groups are being reduced, it reinforces the traditional anti-tax feeling among the general population – making it easier to push for still more tax cuts and reinforcing the general anti-government feeling that has always been part of American culture.
3) Fundamentally change the nature of international relations from a “trilateral” world in which multinational elites collaborated on creating an investment-friendly world into a US-dominated “new world order” in which narrow nationalist goals are achieved through unilateral and pre-emptive use of the US’s military power and everyone else is forced to accommodate Washington’s ability to “create facts on the ground.” ...
Acting like a bully also helps create the type of world that justifies the behavior. In the Middle East, Hamas and Sharon need each other to legitimize their own violence as the only viable response to the extremism of the other side. Similarly, by acting in ways that assume the world is full of terrorists, that allies are untrustworthy, that security comes from hitting everyone else before they can hit you, the new imperialists help create the very conditions they claim to be responding to, which then makes it necessary to act even more aggressively. ...
Most important, by wrapping themselves in the mantle of religion, the GOP leadership has made themselves a vehicle for the growing religious fundamentalist upsurge – parts of which can accurately be described as a fascist movement. Having god on your side means you are always right, no matter what other people may think or how events may fall out. You simply never have to say you are sorry, and all your failures are the result of evil forces beyond your control. Being on a Crusade, having an absolutist and deeply ideological sense of mission, also underpins the right wing’s willingness to use all the power at their command – legal and extra-legal – to push for a maximal agenda. No matter how thin their electoral margin of victory, once in office, they act without hesitation or compromise. They understand that success creates its own legitimacy and its own tailwind, pulling others along with it. ..."
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Erm, no.
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I thought you did??
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No. But is it possible for a left-wing blogger to make millions? -
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Two reasons
1 - I'm more right wing than left in any case.
2 - If you look at it as a job, it becomes copywriting. Nothing different than writing an ad for any other product. Every copywriter would prefer to only write for products they love. But it's a job, and it pays the mortgage. So you write the ads they pay you to write.
one caveat, Since my name was on it, i would still demand editorial control. i wouldn't parrot post plain propaganda ( say that 5 times) under my own name.-
"Every copywriter would prefer to only write for products they love. But it's a job, and it pays the mortgage. So you write the ads they pay you to write."
I have to take issue with this. I've made my living as a writer for many years, and that includes a lot of marketing writing, but I've never written copy to promote a product or service that I ethically disagreed with.
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Rush Limbaugh is paid not for his beliefs...but because of his "talent."
I believe he would be just as successful as a left-wing radio host.
I don't like him, but 12 million people are the proof in the pudding.
He'll say right up front, that the #1 reason he does his show is to make money...-
There's not so much demand for that sort of thing from liberals. Right-wingers tend to be more authoritarian followers and Limbaugh serves as an authoritarian leader. John Dean wrote about that in his book: Conservatives without Conscience as did Thomas Franks in What's Wrong With Kansas.
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For no amount of money could I trade in my principle beliefs like that. -
I find the context of this discussion a bit strange. Is the question whether one would betray political beliefs,etc. for money? Or is it specific to only becoming (gasp) right wing?
Sorry, but this sounds a bit like another left wing cirlce jerk thread where everything right is inherently evil.
Yawn-
I agree ... and add a "rolls eyes" to your "yawn"
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I wouldn't
@dawg, you have a point so we can turn it around and say would you be a left wing blogger for big money even though you might be a staunch conservative. I think the point is would you sell out for the money, either right or left.-
That's what I'm hoping the point is - in which case fair game - but that's not the vibe I got. I could be wrong though.
In regards to that scenario, like pretty much everyone else will say - No, I'd not compromise my principles.
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Someone actually write me a check and we'll see. -
Yes...and I would be a softer, gentler, more compassionate...right wing blogger!!!
Because I know how miffed the left gets over those that don't drink the same Kool-aid!-
I'll be your right-wing, anti-feminazi co-host for the right price.
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I don't think I would, but it's not like it'd be very hard -- just subscribe to RNC.org's RSS feed and repeat all the talking points.-
That's what I was thinking. All you'd have to do is repeat the right-wing talking points and maybe say how much you love Jesus and that would be it. Easy work! That's all most of the right-wing bloggers do and that's all Sean Hannity does on his show.
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As opposed to the left-wing talking points? LOL
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The real money's in the think tanks. American Enterprise Institute, Claremont Institute... big speaker fees to be had there.
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