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The right won the culture war?(Insider Report)

The New American

| December 15, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Judicial Jacobins in Massachusetts have approved homosexual "marriage." An elected chief judge of the highest court in Alabama--the proverbial buckle of the Bible Belt--has been thrown off the bench for keeping a Ten Commandments monument in his court, contrary to a federal court order. Vulgarity, profanity, violence and sex are ubiquitous fare on prime-time television. Popular music extols the pimp as a cultural icon. Yet, according to the establishment "right," conservatives have won the culture war.

What explains this irrationally optimistic view? According to Timothy Noah, a columnist for the on-line journal Slate: "The immediate occasion for conservative jubilation is its victory over CBS in getting it to withdraw its miniseries The Reagans, which had the temerity to suggest that Ronald Reagan was mentally checked out during much of his presidency."

Brian Anderson of the City Paper, a publication of the neo-conservative Manhattan Institute, exults that CBS' decision to spike the miniseries "marks a watershed in America's culture wars.... [T]hanks to a remarkable ...

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