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One of the few podcasts I still listen to on the Ricochet feed. Thanks, ladies! I really appreciate the insights offered each week.
Love you ladies, as usual great show. I love Kira’s rants. What I don’t understand about those people who don’t know what they don’t know is, why don’t they look things up? There is no intellectual curiosity, at all. It’s like we don’t have this amazing thing called the internet, and you can look things up on it. In my opinion, the excuse of ignorance is a cop out. You don’t have to physically endanger yourself, if that is what you believe will happen, you don’t even have to leave your house. You can turn on talk radio, or read some conservative websites. This is a choice, they choose to be ignorant. People on the right know all of the left’s arguments, who is why they lose debates because they never take the time to learn the other side of the argument. This kind of ignorance is a choice considering the access to information out there.
Thank you, Nerina! We are thrilled to have you as a listener!!!
I despair of this! Especially what I’m seeing from young adults.
Teri- Since you have teenagers and are a more conservative leaning person in this insane culture. I’m sure your kids have come home spouting off some of these crazy ideas. My kids are still young, they are 7 and 9 and we still have a good amount of influence. What I would like to know is how to handle that from your teen? Because a lot of teenagers aren’t going to listen to their parents (God Forbid) if there is some idea going around school and the twitterverse.
My idea is to pay them to watch Prager U videos, but are there other ideas that parents can use to combat this crazy culture?
What I’ve noticed from my kids as they got toward their teen years was a natural distrust of the government and other institutions. They don’t like the idea that the government has data on them or that social media platforms sell their information. So we use that distrust to start a whole host of conversations about how they should question everything. PragerU videos are outstanding.
The hardest thing with my kids is debunking those stupid Bill Nye videos they’re shown in science class (and, yes, they’re shown them in HS, too).
One of the funniest things I’ve seen in the last year was a youtube takedown of Nye’s sex as ice cream debacle.
I was really interested when you guys talked about Red State. I’m still trying to learn the lay of the land regarding conservative media. A year ago I kept mixing up Dennis Praeger and Hugh Hewitt, but now I can remember which is which.
Because of their names, I still get the Washington Examiner, Washington Times, and Washington Free Beacon mixed up. I just learned last week that Phillip Anschutz, who owns The Weekly Standard and Washington Examiner, also owns Coachella, which is interesting.
There are seven sites I remember based on their founders: Daily Caller & Tucker; Breitbart & Andrew; Red State & Erickson; Hot Air & Malkin; Federalist & Domenech; Daily Wire & Shapiro; Blaze & Beck. As I understand it, the first four don’t have a relationship with those founders anymore. I’m most familiar with Daily Wire and The Federalist because their podcasts are in the feed.
So Salem owns Townhall, Hot Air & Red State? I know Townhall was originally run by Heritage, although now they’re producing the Daily Signal (not Wire, Caller, or Standard – so many Dailies!) I don’t know anything about Red State apart from Erickson’s involvement.
Hot Air, as I understand it is now run by Allah Pundit. I don’t know who’s Allah Pundit is and who’s the Insta Pundit. I know one wrote a column that made me furious. I don’t remember which one I’m mad at.
What would you say currently differentiates Townhall, Hot Air & Red State? Do they have different formats, cultivate different writing styles, focus on different issues, target different audiences, or something else?
PS: What do conservatives think of The Hill, Axios, & Politico? Do you think they’re fair or that they’re biased? I like to discuss politics with people on both sides of the aisle but sometimes it’s hard to know what sites are trusted by whom. I used to think CNN was pretty fair, but now I regard it as being just as partisan as MSNBC & Fox.
You have a pretty solid lay of the land, @contrarian! I can answer one question for you — InstaPundit is Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee. I’m guessing it’s Allahpundint who made you made, he does that a lot.
As for The Hill, Axios, etc., I’m okay with them (knowing that they have their biases).
It’s pretty difficult these days to find watchable news programs — can’t think of one that’s worth my time!