The Atlantic: 'Ricochet' hopes to make conservatism fun again — online
If conservative ideas are dead, as many liberals claim, nobody seems to have told conservatives. Right-wingers believe their ideas are alive and fit for implementation. All that is needed, perhaps, is new personalities and institutions able to market conservatism in the post-Bush era. At least, that is the thinking behind Ricochet, a new online effort that launches in the next few weeks and aims to advance the right-wing conversation in the age of Obama.
The distinguishing feature of Ricochet will be its unique format, which promises to look unlike any other site on the net. "It will not be a news aggregator, or a megachat like Daily Kos, but instead will be a feed like Facebook or Twitter or Tumbler," says James Poulos, Ricochet's managing editor. Approximately 40 contributors will have an online conversation that is akin to a conservative cocktail party.
Ricochet is the brainchild of two established conservatives, former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson and Hollywood producer-pundit Rob Long. "Rob and I felt there was plenty of space in the online world for a center-right website with a sense of fun, of talking back and forth among conservatives," says Robinson. The left outweighs the right-wing in cyberspace, he says, even with everything from The Weekly Standard to 'Townhall.com' populating the web.
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7 comments:
"conservatism is dead"
Talk about a straw man argument. Conservatives run talk radio and have the #1 cable news network. Just shows they are willing to spout BS as long as it helps promote their brand.
It will attract all the bigots
I got some good ideas for groups that conservatives can form on their facebook.
1.Quitters online, hosted by Sarah Palin
2.Shotguns recreational, interactive lessons by Dick Cheney.
3.How to start useless wars - online edition, special guest appearance by Don Rumsfeld
4.How to destroy a city. Live via internet from New Orleans "Brownie and his FEMA team"
5.The main event of the forum: "How to fail in nearly everything and get to do it twice" - 44th presiden G.W. Bush
to 5:03, 9:51 and 9:57, you people are scary. why? because you can't fix stupid.....
Hoping to make conservatism fun again? you mean it was once fun? Is conservativism like a failed theme park? Is it Disney world during a recession? Fun again, hilarious.
12:29, Do you have something factual that can refute my statement from 5:03, or do you simply sling insults because you have nothing productive to say? Or maybe I just hit a nerve.
sorry 5:03, you can't reason with stupid.
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