UPDATE: New Network for Conservative Entertainment

Kelsey Grammer, who made the big leap years ago and came out of the conservative closet, is one of the investors in a new television network designed with a conservative viewpoint. From ABC News:

RightNetwork, whose first series, "Running," follows the fortunes of a couple of Tea Party-backed candidates for public office, is also trying a new model to establish itself. It is initially making programming available through video-on-demand services, the Internet and through mobile phones, bypassing the route of traditional TV networks with a spot on channel lineups.

I, for one, am excited about this new network. No, I haven't suddenly taken up watching television again and I'm unlikely to do so. Despite my personal "kill your television" worldview, this new network marks an exciting turn in the culture war.

UPDATE: Find RightNetwork programming and video on demand feeds at RightNetwork.com.

Let's face it, television and Hollywood is completely dominated, not just with liberalism, but with radical liberalism to the far left of anything like "mainstream" America. Conservative writers and actors (with a few notable exceptions) are nearly blackballed from participating in the production of any television. Kelsey Grammer is an exception to the dominance of liberalism in Hollywood, but even he quips that:

he "came out" as a conservative in Hollywood 20 years ago and said it hasn't affected his work, although he wouldn't advise a young actor with similar views to talk about them.

The only way to compete against the stranglehold of liberalism in the media is to found networks and movie studios with conservative ideals. Considering that conservatives outnumber liberals two-to-one (Gallup), you'd think that establishing conservative television wouldn't be such a big deal. Unfortunately, it is a big deal, precisely because liberalism abounds in the entertainment industry.

Also unfortunate, presenting conservative programming runs the risk of attack from leftist liberals who seem to think that free speech only applies to them. The continuing liberal defamation of Fox News is a prime example of the double standard leftists hold when anything smacking of conservatism enters the room. Liberals will claim their news is incisive and bias free, while Fox News is divisive hate speech.

The new network will come under the same fire as Fox News. ABC News included this gem in response to the new network:

Jeff Cohen, an Ithaca College journalism professor and liberal activist, questioned whether the kind of audience that likes conservative talk shows want something similar in entertainment, and whether it can be pulled off.

"Comedy requires irony," Cohen said. "It can't be frothing with hate or fear. Drama requires complexity. It can't be all black and white."

The funny thing is, ABC News reports Jeff Cohen's statement apparently with a straight face. (Oh the irony!) (And without any understanding as to why David Letterman, Keith Olbermann, and Jon Stewart are not funny.) ABC News and Cohen imply that only liberal humor or liberal drama is sufficiently savvy to be funny or be dramatic. Perhaps that's why such networks as MSNBC are tanking while conservative programs on Fox News double and triple the ratings of the nearest leftist networks. The American people simply do not have the savvy necessary to understand the subtleties of leftist dogma, disguised as entertainment.

Here's another brilliant example of leftist duplicity, taken from a comment to the ABC News article:

Republicans / conservatives are morons , [sic] even [sic[ their " [sic] top" thinkers are at best dubious in their political logic / analysis , [sic] from Nixon onwards right up to people like Palin and Beck today . [sic] There is no reasoning with such doltish buffoons , [sic] and I feel sorry for the folks on the r/ hand [sic] end of the IQ Bell curve ( [sic] like Mr Obama [sic]) who try [sic] to intelligently debate these egomaniacal numb skulls [sic] . [sic] It's a shame that most intelligent pragmatic ideas get drowned out / overridden by the stupid knee-jerk reacting masses, [sic] but hey , [sic] that's contemporary American democracy for you . [sic] Keep the masses stupid , [sic] poor and hungry ( [sic] but make sure they think they are "well-educated" [sic] and "middle class" ) [sic] ...

The comment continued on. This extract is sufficient to demonstrate the (rather rambling) point: free speech only exists if you agree with liberals. Keep in mind that the person who left this comment did so on a news story merely announcing the launch of a new network. Reading this comment, you'd think that a conservative had shot this person's grandmother.

The point here is that both Cohen and the liberal commentator cannot see the extraordinary duplicity in their statements and cannot help but take cheap pot shots at anything they perceive as different from themselves (such a shame in our "tolerant" society). Also notice the liberal use (pun intended) of ad hominem attacks against conservatives.

The liberal control of media, the duplicitous attitude against anyone who doesn't agree with liberal dogma, the failed moral structure of the "new" society,  all these give us reasons why we need more people to step up to the plate and create the new counterculture - one based on the conservative ideals of moral responsibility (not moral relativism), equal opportunity (not equal outcomes), and limited government. This is why we desperately need new conservative media.

Conservative ideals have too long been underrepresented in television and in the movie industry. Support conservative media and help bring balance to a wildly unbalanced system.