Conservative commentator Scott Jennings is joining the Los Angeles Times editorial board weeks after senior staffers quit over the board’s decision not to endorse Kamala Harris, he confirmed Friday on Twitter.
Jennings accepted the offer from Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong, the owner of the paper, to join the board.
“I think Dr Soon-Shiong is doing something important and groundbreaking and am honored he asked me to play a role in that,” Jennings tweeted.
“Roughly half (or more) of the country often feels like legacy media doesn’t care what it thinks and has little interest in fairly representing its views and values. I plan to represent those Americans who believe they are often ignored or even ridiculed in legacy media and applaud Dr Soon-Shiong’s move to bring balance to the editorial board,” Jennings wrote. more here
Good luck in trying to re-establish conservative values. With the amount of Demoncrats in control of everything I find it hard to look back and think we could go back to when we used to be a great country.
That will be like trying to plug a hole in a boat’s hull with a wad of bubblegum. I hope it sinks!
Mr. Jennings, I applaud your efforts in advance and hope for your great success even though I’m skeptical. Best of luck to you!
Reading the LA Times after that scumbag who owns it turned it into the rag it is (same for Jeff Bozos and his rag, the WAPO) is rewarding these scumbags. Until they sell, those papers are dead to me – and should be to the rest of us.
@ Sourpuss SUNDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2024, 16:44 AT 4:44 PM
Don’t concede defeat to the progressive/Marxist/Satanists. That’s exactly what they want.
G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong With the World (1910):
There is one metaphor of which the moderns are very fond; they are always saying, “You can’t put the clock back.” The simple and obvious answer is “You can.” A clock, being a piece of human construction, can be restored by the human finger to any figure or hour. In the same way society, being a piece of human construction, can be reconstructed upon any plan that has ever existed. There is another proverb, “As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it”; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.
Next comes C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1941–44; rev. 1952):
You may have felt you were ready to listen to me as long as you thought I had anything new to say; but if it turns out to be only religion, well, the world has tried that and you cannot put the clock back. If anyone is feeling that way I should like to say three things to him.
First, as to putting the clock back. Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do? But I would rather get away from that whole idea of clocks. We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be and if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. We have all seen this when we do arithmetic. When I have started a sum the wrong way, the sooner I admit this and go back and start over again, the faster I shall get on. There is nothing progressive about being pigheaded and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world, it is pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistakes. We are on the wrong road. And if that is so, we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.
Finally, Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (1948):
Whoever argues for a restoration of values is sooner or later met with the objection that one cannot return, or as the phrase is likely to be, “you can’t turn the clock back.” By thus assuming that we are prisoners of the moment, the objection well reveals the philosophic position of modernism. The believer in truth, on the other hand, is bound to maintain that the things of highest value are not affected by the passage of time; otherwise the very concept of truth becomes impossible. In declaring that we wish to recover lost ideals and values, we are looking toward an ontological realm which is timeless. Only the sheerest relativism insists that passing time renders unattainable one ideal while forcing upon us another. Therefore those that say we can have the integration we wish, and those who say we cannot, differ in their ideas of ultimate reality, for the latter are positing the primacy of time and of matter. And this is the kind of division which prevents us from having one world.
Now the return which the idealists propose is not a voyage backward through time but a return to center, which must be conceived metaphysically or theologically. They are seeking the one which endures and not the many which change and pass, and this search can be only described as looking for the truth. They are making the ancient affirmation that there is a center of things, and they point out that every feature of modern disintegration is a flight from this toward periphery. It is expressible, also, as a movement from unity to individualism. In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them. A recovery of certain viewpoints associated with the past would be a recovery of understanding as such, and this, unless we admit ourselves to be helpless in the movement of a deterministic march, is possible at any time. In brief, one does not require a particular standpoint to comprehend the timeless. Let us remember all the while that the very notion of eternal verities is repugnant to the modern temper.
@DHasty Sunday, 1 December 2024, 20:05 at 8:05 pm
Thank You! It’s folks like you that give me hope!
It is truly refreshing to know there are still Christian believers here. I do however think that we live in the Biblical last days and look forward to Yeshua the Messiah to call us home. I know that secular humanism is real and present but I do pray that that the Lord protect us in these evil Demoncrat days and pray our descendants know and love the Lord Yeshua. I believe the Screwtape files are an accurate portrayal of what is to come but I believe the Lord will protect us no matter the earthly results. Thank you so much,we will meet the Lord when he calls us home!.