Liberals dominate mainstream media, three major news networks, and academia, among other things. And take a look at the public policy institute results in Yahoo!. No doubt there are many more than Yahoo! lists, but among these 40 or so, about nine would be described as conservative, a few libertarian, and the rest liberal.
Apparently liberals don’t think those are doing the job. Democrats have been losing elections for some time now, and several rich liberals want to throw millions into developing an organization called the The Democracy Alliance to fund more liberal “think” tanks. “Its staff members and board of directors will develop a lineup of established and proposed groups that they believe will develop and promote ideas on the left,” intones the Washington Post.
It’s comically yet divinely fitting that liberals think pouring large amounts of cash into organizations is the appropriate (and only) way to compete with conservatives. Ever heard of ideas? Nevermind.
The Air America debacle has taught them nothing. The conservative think tank community was built up over 30 years (long time). Those institutes were formed to fill a void. In a culture saturated with leftism, such places were a refuge from a storm of cultural decay, and they still are. And yes, conservative think tanks receive government funds [Maybe not! See Update below.], but their private donor base is rock solid, built up over years.
As expected, cash-infused, sprung-up-overnight liberal entities fail. According to liberals’ own Washington Post, George Soros’s new think tank is “floundering.” I predict that groups funded by The Democracy Alliance will fail, too.
Take a memo, libs. Air America is floundering because bored rich people came up with a similar scheme to “compete” with well-established, profitable, and popular conservative radio instead of building up a following, offering something liberals weren’t getting elsewhere, and developing a market. Rich liberals, who presumably earned their money by selling people want they want, forgot all about the principles of common sense capitalism and tried to bypass it by propping up a bunch of vapid liberals squawking on the radio all day. The people reacted as expected. They haven’t tuned in.
As a result, Air America’s advertising revenue is non-existent. They’re reduced to allegedly stealing money from poor black kids in New York. Read about the latest news.
Air America is failing in part because liberal “talk” is everywhere, all around us. You can’t pick up a newspaper or magazine, flip the channel or surf to a news site without seeing or hearing it. Why would anyone tune in to listen to bunch of vapid (and forgettable) liberals on the radio all day long when they have National Public Radio, which is done much better? I’m no fan of NPR, either, so don’t get it twisted. I’m just saying.
The ubiquitous NPR, propped up by taxpayers, only “works” because it’s propped up by taxpayers. If it had to compete with other talk radio shows, it would fall flat.
To change the subject a bit, in my brief time on planet earth, I’ve learned that most liberals don’t like to be called liberals. “Progressive” is the term of choice, and “centrist” and “moderate” pop up every now and then. But the most hilarious thing I’ve heard a raving liberal say is that they’re “independent.” Can you believe it?
It gets funnier. Some black liberals have the nerve to preach to me about the virtue of maintaining an “independent” ideology, that we should think about and vote for what is good for our people without regard to political parties. It’s a shame, they tell me, that black Republicans are seen as shills for white folks, but that’s just the way people perceive you.
“I see,” I say. “Well, I don’t belong to a political party. Never have. I’m an independent conservative. In fact, I’m more conservative than most Republicans.”
“Oh yeah?” the liberal asks sheepishly. “I thought you were one of those black Republicans.”
“Well, I’m not,” I say, “Although I tend to vote for Republicans, I find it symbolically satisfying to be an ‘Undeclared’ voter. I feel more independent. How about you? Do you belong to a party?”
“Well, yes.”
“Which one?” I ask rhetorically.
“The Democratic party,” says the liberal, “but that doesn’t mean I don’t think independently!”
“So the same can be said for black Republicans, right?”
“Right.”
Unfortunately, the case is never closed.
Update: Commenter Mark Tapscott writes: “I can’t speak for other think tanks, but The Heritage Foundation has never accepted a penny from government and does no contract work for government agencies. Frankly, I’m not aware of any Right think tank that does accept government funding, though there may be some of which I’m just not aware.”
News to my grateful ears!
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Update II: Impacted Wisdom has an organizational chart you should see.
