Legal Insurrection With a hat tip to Christy Waters at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook.
"I previously wrote about how BuzzFeed Politics has combined “the culture” and savvy crafting into a highly effective tool for undermining Republicans with subtle and not-so-subtle mockery. “Look at the goofy cat, look at the goofy celeb, look at the goofy Republican” is more dangerous to us than a 5000-word article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
"To follow up on that theme, I happened upon a website called Upworthy, which had one its posts run at HuffPo, Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever, Stumps A Bunch Of Bank Regulators.
"The post was so wrong on substance, I just had to click over to the source."
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Here is where the site has appeal to Obama voters:
"Upworthy is the fastest growing website and already receives millions of visits a month despite being less than one year old, and has over 55 thousand Twitter followers. It recently received $4 million in venture capital funding.
"Upworthy is not interested in deep thinking, or you:"
Next comes the mention of a "push-poll", which I find irritating even when they come from conservatives:
...."The first thing to note is that when you click on the homepage link to the post, an anti-NRA poll pops up. It’s the equivalent of a push poll, delivering a political message in the form of a poll. The “I Agree” button already is highlighted, so that the reader does not even need to think through the already biased question. How long before Upworthy runs a post about the overwhelming demand that Congress “stand up to the NRA”?"
(Emphasis added)
"I previously wrote about how BuzzFeed Politics has combined “the culture” and savvy crafting into a highly effective tool for undermining Republicans with subtle and not-so-subtle mockery. “Look at the goofy cat, look at the goofy celeb, look at the goofy Republican” is more dangerous to us than a 5000-word article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
"To follow up on that theme, I happened upon a website called Upworthy, which had one its posts run at HuffPo, Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever, Stumps A Bunch Of Bank Regulators.
"The post was so wrong on substance, I just had to click over to the source."
....
Here is where the site has appeal to Obama voters:
"Upworthy is the fastest growing website and already receives millions of visits a month despite being less than one year old, and has over 55 thousand Twitter followers. It recently received $4 million in venture capital funding.
"Upworthy is not interested in deep thinking, or you:"
Next comes the mention of a "push-poll", which I find irritating even when they come from conservatives:
(Emphasis added)
"There is nothing like Upworthy or BuzzFeed on the right. The closest we have come is Twitchy, Michelle Malkin’s brilliant website.
"Are you surprised that Obama won the youth vote even though his policies are a complete disaster for the young?
"We are losing the fight to the lowest of low information voters, who are pushed toward a liberal agenda by very smart and talented people who understand the power of social media in a way we don’t."
