Top Conservatives To WaPo: Stop ‘Dishonest’ Label Of Jennifer Rubin As ‘Conservative’

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 Top Conservatives To WaPo: Stop ‘Dishonest’ Label Of Jennifer Rubin As ‘Conservative’

By Mollie Hemingway   
October 4, 2018

The Washington Post’s continued labeling of blogger Jennifer Rubin as a “conservative” in the years since she has repeatedly rejected conservative ideas and principles is an example of why the American people are unable to trust the media, more than three dozen top conservative leaders say.

“In truth, it is nearly impossible to discern any conservatism in Rubin’s contemporary writing,” the leaders said in an October 3 letter to the Washington Post editorial board. Citing the rejection of her previous positions on climate change, gun control, Middle East foreign policy, tax cuts, immigration, and abortion, the group said the notion that Rubin is conservative is “laughable.”

More recently she has mocked virginity as “juvenile, emotionally stunted” behavior, argued in favor of impeaching Judge Brett Kavanaugh, mocked those who defend due process and the rule of law, campaigned for Democrats and against Republicans, and generally engaged in obsessive behavior against conservatives on social media.

“We, of course, respect the right of The Washington Post to employ whatever writers it pleases — even Jennifer Rubin. However, we ask for the sake of intellectual honesty that the Post cease to identify her as in any way ‘conservative,'” the group implored the Post. They also asked that the paper, which employs almost no columnists that represent the views of the vast majority of Republicans, consider dealing with that major problem more than two years after Donald Trump’s election as president shocked the media class.

“[W]e also respectfully request that you consider hiring a voice who can eloquently and effectively defend the positions held by our President, his party, and the millions of voters who elected him. We would be happy to provide recommendations.”

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[TomSea]

Yes, some people who are "conservative" are not in the ways, we understand it to be.

Also add George Will and Max Boot to this list.  Jeff Flake?

Maybe not everyone has this understanding but I do think many people in this country could use what Rush Limbaugh says as the standard for what Conservatism is. God Bless Rush Limbaugh, a blessing to this country.

Respectfully, maybe sometimes George Will has been conservative but then, he washes that way with other things he writes. It would be a matter of study.

[andy58-in-nh]

 
They've got both kinds at WaPo - Communists and socialists. The socialists are their "conservatives".

[Absalom]

'The Conservative Mind' of Russell Kirk articulated/enumerated conservative
principles spawned by the wise men of the Fertile Crescent all the way to
moderns such as Babbitt and T.S.Eliot. In essence, Conservatism:
* is derived from the Natural Law, the ageless rules of nature and
* has nothing, NOTHING, to do w/libertarianism, a fad spawned by
18th century French Radicals of the Enlightenment.
The conservative label is self-applied by frauds and hustlers such as
Rubin, Will, Kristol, Boot; among hundreds. For these, conservative
principles are useful cliches that gets them tee-vee face time.