538: Nate Silver explains how talk radio has fucked over conservatives, remains sexy while doing so.

[biichan]

Did Talk Radio Kill Conservatism?

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Almost, but not quite, entirely OT:

[bushy_brow]

I had a weird dream the other that Nate Silver was teaching a statistics class at my university (and I was taking it, of course, being the math nerd/Nate fangirl that I am).  Then, oddly enough, after I got out of class, I went to the grocery store and ran into Keith Olbermann in the parking lot and Rachel Maddow in the checkout line.  Heh.

Re: Almost, but not quite, entirely OT:

[gina_r_snape]

I want to be in your dream.

Re: Almost, but not quite, entirely OT:

[bushy_brow]

As long as you bring John Oliver with you, you're more than welcome to tag along.  :-)

Re: Almost, but not quite, entirely OT:

[gina_r_snape]

:giggles:

I like yer thinkin'

btw, I met him the other night. Total sweetheart. See my LJ for a very bad (pixilated) but completely adorkable pic of him if you're interested.

[mzflux]

I love everything about this post.

[palecloudeddots]

Sexy Nate Silver. RAWR!

[flydarlingfly]

There are a certain segment of conservatives who literally cannot believe that anybody would see the world differently than the way they do. They have not just forgotten how to persuade; they have forgotten about the necessity of persuasion.

This, so hard. In fact, I do not think that talk radio so much has killed conservatism as much as the so-called "moral majority" has. What was the conservatives biggest strength, their somewhat admirable ability to make previously small or secondary issues into big, national issues, their biggest weakness. They blow and blow and have forgotten how to talk pretty to persuade and how to compromise. Too many years of control will do that to a party.

America has moved forward. You can move with it and accept you can't control progress or you can refuse to learn your lesson and sit stubbornly in the middle of the sidewalk watching the world step around you.

[flydarlingfly]

Oh, and talk radio didn't kill conservatism. It killed conservative intellectualism. :/

[moira_fae11]

Very much this.