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Jewish World Review
May 4, 2005
/ 25 Nisan, 5765
Why I'm not a South Park Conservative
By
Michelle Malkin
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I'll get to First Lady Laura Bush's bawdy stand-up routine in a minute. But
I want to highlight a related new book out about how young conservatives
are shaking up the dominant liberal media culture. It's called "South Park
Conservatives." My name is listed on the cover along with many other
(mostly) right-leaning pundits, websites, and bloggers, but I must confess
to having mixed feelings about the honor.
The best-selling book's author, Brian C. Anderson of the Manhattan
Institute, writes a fun, breezy survey documenting the rise of talk radio,
FOX News, the Internet, conservative publishing, and college Republican
activism. Anderson's chapter on the success of conservative talk radio and
the abysmal failure of liberal Air America to replicate it is incisive.
Another chapter on the blogosphere (alone worth the price of the book)
gives readers a useful history of the explosion of news, opinion, and
political websites that have smashed the left-wing media monopoly.
But how did such a wide-ranging list of individuals and
organizations Anderson's book cover includes the names of
conservative-leaning Internet pioneer Matt Drudge and center-left
journalist Mickey Kaus, the libertarian Tech Central Station, the
culturally conservative WorldNetDaily, political upstart Arnold
Schwarzenegger and political chameleon Andrew Sullivan, plus Ann Coulter,
Laura Ingraham, and myself, along with a feature blurb from Jonah
Goldberg all get lumped under the umbrella term "South Park Conservatives?"
Anderson argues that Comedy Central's cartoon series, South Park, embodies
the "fiercely anti-liberal comedic spirit" of the "new media" from Kaus to
Coulter. The cartoon, he writes, reflects a "post-liberal counterculture"
that is "particularly appealing to the young, however much it might offend
older conservatives."
Well, I'm 34 and no fan of South Park. I have many good friends who are
indeed huge boosters of the show, but I find that the characters' foul
language overwhelms any entertainment I might otherwise derive from the
show's occasional , right-leaning iconoclastic themes.
South Park may be "politically incorrect." But "politically incorrect" is
not always a synonym for "conservative."
My discomfort with South Park's increasingly mainstream vulgarity is not a
matter of nitpicking. We're not just talking about a stray curse word here
or there. As liberal New York Times columnist Frank Rich points out, South
Park "holds the record for the largest number of bleeped-out repetitions
(162) of a single four-letter expletive in a single television half-hour."
That's probably about the same number of profanities uttered at John
Kerry's infamous New York City celebrity fundraiser last summer, which
Republicans rightly condemned for its excessive obscenities.
Rich is wrong about most things, but he's painfully on target in noting the
incongruous pandering now taking place by some in the cool-kids clique on
the Right. Conservatives criticize Hollywood relentlessly, but as Rich
notes, "the embarrassing reality is that they want to be hip, too."
Which brings me to Mrs. Bush. She demonstrated at the celebrity-studded
White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend that you can entertain
without being profane. Most of her humor was just right: Edgy but not over
the edge. But her off-color stripper and horse jokes crossed the line. Can
you blame Howard Stern for feeling peeved and perplexed? And let's face it:
if Teresa ("I'm cheeky!") Heinz Kerry had delivered Mrs. Bush's First Lady
Gone Mildly Wild routine, social conservative pundits would be up in arms
over her bad taste and lack of dignity.
The First Lady resorting to horse masturbation jokes is not much better
than Whoopi Goldberg trafficking in dumb puns on the Bush family name. It
was wholly unnecessary.
Self-censorship is a conservative value. In a brilliant commencement speech
at Hillsdale College last year Heritage Foundation president Ed Feulner
called on his audience to resist the coarsened rhetoric of our time: "If we
are to prevail as a free, self-governing people, we must first govern our
tongues and our pens. Restoring civility to public discourse is not an
option. It is a necessity."
Lighten up, you say? No thanks. I'd rather be a G-rated conservative who
can only make my kids giggle than a South Park/Desperate Housewives
conservative whose goal is getting Richard Gere and Jane Fonda to snicker.
Giving the Hollyweird Left the last laugh is not my idea of success.
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