Are Conservatives Rethinking The Fox News Outrage Model?

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Responding to President Barack Obama's inauguration address this week, Joel Pollak, an editor at Breitbart.com, wrote about the president's allegedly dastardly attack on the Supreme Court that unfolded during his address to the nation on Monday.

Pollak excitedly claimed that by mentioning his support for gay marriage in his inauguration speech, Obama was trying to bully Supreme Court Justices who were in attendance that day. By stating publically his belief, Obama was attempting to intimidate (to "attack&quot the judicial branch of the government because the Supreme Court has before it a pending case about gay marriage and the president's comment meant he was instructing the Court on how it "ought to rule."

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Writing at his site RedState this week, conservative CNN commentator Erick Erickson beseeched fellow partisans to drop the outrage shtick and to move into more substantial areas of debate. "Conservatives, frankly, have become purveyors of outrage instead of preachers for a cause," he wrote. "Who the hell wants to listen to conservatives whining and moaning all the time about the outrage du jour?"

full: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/24/are-conservatives-rethinking-the-fox-news-outra/192374

Wait a second. ERICK ERICKSON of all people calling for "fellow partisans to drop the outrage shtick and to move into more substantial areas of debate"??? Erick Erickson of "David Souter goat F-er" fame? And for comparing the DNC to "The Vagina Monologues"?

[russspeakeasy]

1. You have to think before you can re-think.

[Scuba]

2. Like Obama's gonna get talking points from Scalia?

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. From time to time ...

I wander over to redstates. Erickson, while imo wrong on all issues political, personal and/or practical, at least presents a 1/32 inch deep argument/defense of conservatism (so long as one doesn't sneeze and blow the dust off of the argument/defense).

I, often, am tempted to troll his site from the absolutionist, fox-watching, outraged, right.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Yet another pasty, doughy white boy who has not grown up.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. "Who the hell wants to listen to conservatives whining and moaning all the time"

THEY DO.

It's like a test of loyalty at this point.

[Bill USA]

6. This is the standard way of simulating sincerity when using the Big Lie tactic. They aren't likely

to give that up.