By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:32:55 +0000

My complaint is not that they originated the meme–clearly they’re participating in the topical-news-that-just-happens-to-correspond-to-a-new-book-I’m-putting-out activity that passes for reporting now. My complaint is that they never brought up an alternative explanation for the fact that there’s much to the show that ridicules bipartisan positions (”Drugs are bad, m’kay?”), conservative positions (”What do you mean you don’t have sex with children, Father Maxi?”), and, of course, no-good goddamn dirty hippies (”Everyone knows that Cherokee hair makes the best tampons”). They have to be one or the other, despite the fact that On the Media has had guests from a certain magazine on:

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts_112803_momdad.html

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts_040204_nasty.html

By: Jason Lefkowitz

Jason Lefkowitz — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:55:52 +0000

I don’t think this is that outrageous of a discussion topic, since there’s been a concerted effort from the Right over the last couple of years to add some hipness to their overwhelmingly white male Christian image by trumpeting the arrival of “South Park Republicans”/”South Park Conservatives”.

See

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2001_12_09_dish_archive.html#7873332

http://www.techcentralstation.com/100702A.html

http://usconservatives.about.com/od/politics/a/southparkgop.htm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895260190/ref=pd_sxp_f/102-6413098-1968953?v=glance&s=books

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_Republican

So it’s not that NPR or whoever is forcing Parker & Stone into the “Republican” box — rather, it’s (at least some) Republicans who are doing that, more for their own benefit than because of any strong ideological connection.

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