South Park Conservatives

I don't watch South Park, but I laugh every time someone tells me about one of the show's PC-bashing episodes. Now there's a book, South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias, that looks like it'll be a pretty good read. Its author, Brian C. Anderson, writing in the New York Post, posits that MSM's liberal leanings have created a real, growing and powerful backlash, especially among the youthful population that will be tomorrow's leaders.

One sign of the backlash, he says, is that humor is no longer in the sole ownership of the Garafolo and Frank team. South Park is but one example of the growing irreverance toward the hallowed truths of the Left, as described by Anderson:

South Park sometimes shows a socially conservative streak — one episode actually mocks pro-choice extremism, when Cartman's mother, Liane, decides to abort her son — then in the third grade.

She goes to the "Unplanned Parenthood" clinic. "I want to have an abortion," she tells the receptionist.

"If you don't feel fit to raise a child, then abortion probably is the answer," the receptionist tells her. "Do you know the actual time of conception?"

Liane: "About—eight years ago."

"I see," the receptionist says, "so the fetus is?"

Eight years old, Liane says, matter-of-factly.

"Ms. Cartman, uh eight years old is a little late to be considering abortion," says the receptionist.

Liane registers surprise, and the receptionist elaborates: "Yes — this is what we would refer to as the 'fortieth trimester.' "

"But I just don't think I'm a fit mother," Liane laments.

"Wuh? But we prefer to abort babies a little earlier on," the receptionist notes. "In fact, there's a law against abortions after the second trimester."

Later, Liane discovers, to her horror, that the word "abortion" means termination of life — and not the same thing as "adoption," as she had mistakenly thought — she abandons her plans.

Also from Anderson, this reaffirming tidbit:

Student views on most issues have moved steadily to the Right over the last decade. The change isn't coming from the faculty lounges and administrative offices but from self-organizing right-of-center or anti-liberal students themselves, helped by innovative off-campus groups — and by the new media, which allow students easy access to ideas considered verboten in many classrooms.

The number of College Republicans, for instance, has almost tripled, from 400 or so campus chapters six years ago to 1,148 today, with 120,000 members — more than the College Democrats on both counts. Other conservative groups, ranging from gun clubs — Harvard's has more than 100 students blasting away — to impudent anti-PC newspapers are budding at schools everywhere.

h/t Media Bistro