Rush Limbaugh: Conservatives Are 'Nowhere in the Pop Culture'

[Shlomo]

While I think that a lot of the so-called conservative outlets are not truly conservative, Rush makes the point that the American people are being brainwashed by the entertainment industry and the leftist schools and colleges. We have said this all along. Perhaps, finally, people are waking up to what is happening and realizing that it is not by accident.

Rush Limbaugh: Conservatives Are 'Nowhere in the Pop Culture'

Radio's Rush Limbaugh remains an astute observer of the country's political forces. He also understands how much power popular culture, which more than leans left, has over voters.

Limbaugh listed the ways in which conservatism commands the public's loyalty, specifically citing talk radio, non-fiction book sales and Fox News. Yet the right continues to lose at the ballot box.

How do elections happen the way they do? We own books; we own talk radio; we own cable news. Well, the answer is, "We're nowhere in the pop culture. We are nowhere in movies. We're nowhere in television shows.  We are nowhere in music. Nowhere!"

On the fiction side of books, we're nowhere, in terms of what conservatism is, being cool and plot lines and that kind of thing. We're not in the classroom, we're not in academia, we're not the professors and the presidents of universities. We are not school superintendents. Those are very crucial because they get people when they're young, young skulls full of mush. They get to make and form those brains and basically propagandize them and indoctrinate them however they wish.

Limbaugh is more or less right on target. It's a complicated situation, with some obvious examples like kiddie films which demonize big business and the military hammering home his point, while the success of Duck Dynasty shows the left's grip on the culture is not universal.

What pop culture does so effectively is make liberal figures cool (Parks and Recreation's main character worships Hillary Clinton, for example) and conservative ideals cruel and unworthy of our trust (Lee Daniels' The Butler is a perfect Exhibit A) through a stream of messages embedded in the content that comes into our homes.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/08/29/limbaugh-conservatives-nowhere-pop-culture

[angryChineseKahanist]

He's absolutely right.
But he's saying what his audience wants him to say.
He's also saying what the communists want him to say. He talks about how great the great March'n Loot'n Koon is. He talks about how great the great civil wrongs movement was.
If he tells the truth, he'd be hauled off to jail.

[briann]

Actually... they are all over pop culture.... whenever a movie needs a villain or a domestic terrorist.... you will see them.

[Dr. Dan]

I think it's because most conservatives are honest hard working people who have families or work hard and not live off of the system.  That's why very few have lots of money or the ability nor the desire to work as hard as liberal activists. 

I hope I can change that.

[NoMosqueHere]

Pop culture really got started after WWII, and it grew exponentially in the 1960s.  It grew, along with the various liberal political movements (i.e.,  the black civil rights movement), in opposition to conventional white culture and its realistic attitudes about race, class, sex, etc.  To some extent, Reagan and like minded conservatives attempted a counter-revolution against the liberal ethos in the 1980s, but I guess it failed in the long run.

Most critically, the Reaganites failed to understand the terrible consequences of massive third world immigration, which was happening under their noses.  I recall republicans' statements such as: "oh, the new hispanic immigrants are natural conservatives or republicans, because they believe in god."  This was, of course, a lot of bull; hispanics are more leftist than other groups (except the jews of course) and have their own racial agenda (La Raza). And, of course, muslim immigration is an abomination from hell.  Conservatives were utterly oblivious to the fact that massive third world immigration would doom the white population and the republican party to permanent minority status.   

I don't think it's too late to attempt another Reagan like counter movement, but it will be a very tough go.  The white population in the US is dwindling at a rapid rate, and the new third world immigrants will not be good allies.  The only hope is to field solid anti-immigration and pro white presidential candidates in 2016.  And it wouldn't hurt if the candidates attacked the garbage dump american pop culture has become.