EVIL KOCH BROTHERS SEND TIMID PROGRESSIVE JOURNALIST DIVING FOR THE FAINTING COUCH. Jonah Goldberg spots Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, a “Progressive” obsessed with diversity and multiculturalism, condemning the Koch Brothers for not similarly worshiping at the altar of government:
How, then, are the Kochs members of the radical Right? They are pro-gay marriage. They favor liberal immigration policies. They are passionate non-interventionists when it comes to foreign policy. They are against the drug war and are spending a bundle on dismantling so-called “mass-incarceration” policies. They’ve never seized a national park at gunpoint.
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Liberals are constantly talking about how we need an “honest conversation” about race or guns or this or that. But what they invariably mean is, they want everyone who disagrees to shut up. (That’s why they hate Fox News, too.)
The best working definition of “right wing” today has almost nothing to do with the ideological content of what right-wingers say or do. A right-winger is someone who disagrees with the liberal narrative, has the temerity to say so, and dares to actually try to change the conversation.
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