Click here to read Stephen Green’s post Yet Another Reason I’ll Never Be a Conservative.
Read the post in its entirety. It deals with the censorship issue. We’ll just give you his punchline:
Keep the Democrats out of my wallet and the Republicans out of my entertainment. Please.
Indeed, Green hits on a fascinating aspect of American politics. There have been many times in American political history where a certain number of citizens and even former partisans become turned off by the firm positions of both parties. If you’re interested in this topic, buy the paperback edition of John P. Avlon’s Independent Nation. I’m finishing it up and will do a full review of it on this site and post that review on Amazon (before I started the blog I was in Amazon’s Top 500 reviewers but have slipped to the Top 1000 due to time spent here).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.