{"id":5459,"date":"2009-09-24T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2009-09-24T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T13:00:05","slug":"safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tuned into “Fresh Air” with, um, aaaah, um, Terry Gross on MPR last night for a bit…<\/p>\n

…and heard what sounded, at first blush, like a typical “lefty goes among the conservatives” story; Gross was interviewing some kind of “mainstream”\/lefty journalist about his visit to the Value Voters Summit.<\/p>\n

The better news – the part that made me actually stay tuned for most of the episode <\/a>– was that it was David Weigel of the Washington Independent<\/em>, one of precious few generally good reporters in the entire Sorosnet <\/strike>“Center for “Independent” Media” chain.<\/p>\n

Weigel has an interesting beat…:<\/p>\n

Is the conservative right undergoing a transformation? Journalist David Weigel thinks so. Weigel covers the Republican party for the online magazine The Washington Independent, where he’s written about tea party protests, anti-health care activists, the “birther” movement and the recent Values Voter summit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure what’s the most interesting thing about the interview: that the left thinks they need to study conservatism like it’s an anthropology experiment?\u00a0 That Terry, um, uh, Gross seems to eager to pass on the current A-list of anti-right slanders (lookit all those racist teagaggers!)?
\nBut Weigel’s interview is interesting; it seems that Weigel, almost alone among the media and left (pardon the redundancy), notices what we tea-partiers have figured out, something I noted in my speech to the Minnesota Tea Party last week; the right seems to be focused less on individual issues – life, immigration, security – and more on the contitutional first principles that need <\/em>to link us.<\/p>\n

It’s actually good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tuned into “Fresh Air” with, um, aaaah, um, Terry Gross on MPR last night for a bit… …and heard what sounded, at first blush, like a typical “lefty goes among the conservatives” story; Gross was interviewing some kind of “mainstream”\/lefty journalist about his visit to the Value Voters Summit. The better news – the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}