Because the right wing bubble JUST isn’t isolated enough yet ! These people want to live in a little world of yes men.
Wonder whether they infringed the intellectual property of QUBE?
I doubt it. There are about 72 trademarks that contain the word ‘Qube’. The closest thing I see to a conflict is Sun Microsystems trademark:
Sun might get upset if the QubeTV site develops a rep for crappy servers.
The branch of conservatism that has hit the mainstream right now seems to breed fanboyism. Not fanaticism, which is rare everywhere, but fanboyism: The desire to defend a single idea or group or product against everything, from attacks to ideas for improvement, the inability to evaluate a given thing rationally, and the resulting need to enter or create an environment where that thing is never criticized.
It is related to the various “persecution complexes”, such as the old “Amiga persecution complex” back when Amiga users felt like the only people using good computers in a sea of moronic Mac-heads and idiotic PC-freaks. Every technical culture accumulates fanboys like barnacles, and certain left-wing political cultures seem to foster the attitude as well (earth-botherers, socialists), but these days it seems like we hear more and more from the whiny branch of the Republican party and less from the others. You know, the people who screamed how Bill raped babies and Hillary slapped Marines, the ones who keep Rush Limbaugh on the air. They never got over the idea that liberals are keeping them down and controlling the media and owning all of politics except what little slivers conservatives have taken back by main force. It was annoying enough when Clinton was in office. Now that liberals have only recently regained some power, it’s disgustingly stupid.
In addition to which, “anti-conservative bias” pretty much means “containing any sizable body of opinion, content, etc., not orientated high-and-tight right.”
Since they know they’re the only moral ones, the only ones worth trusting and believing in, “balance,” to them, means nothing less than total control.
I have no problems with that. What’s annoying is when they come out into the real world and try to tell the rest of us what to do.
But they are the real world. They’re just trying to force the rest of us to live in it. Why else would they always be exhorting people to “live in the real world,” saying that this or that “doesn’t play in the real world,” or “the real world doesn’t have any use for” this or that?
The real world, by the way, consists mainly of two things: money and force. Anything too far removed from one or the other is a waste of time and possibly destructive of people’s character.
The New York Times reports that a split is developing within the Republican party over evolution: Is it an affront to God and Jesus or is it the doorway to the rebirth of Social Darwinism and using sham “biology” to enforce traditional social roles? I simplify and snark, but the quoted opinions aren’t much better. With any luck this will force more and more Republicans to choose whether or not they want their party run by the Southern Baptist Convention and other assorted religious nuts. Which group is living in the “Real World” and which group is a bunch of Undercover Liberals?