Erstwhile conservative talker Dennis Prager is being ripped by some online for a very simple tweet.

Here it is:

The news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does. — Dennis Prager (@DennisPrager) July 14, 2017

Dennis has in the past been a brilliant rational thinker who was able to clearly define conservative principles. Ironically, in this tweet, he accidentally does the latter by abandoning the former.

In other words, he’s given us a very good dividing line between those who have gone batcrap insane with their critique on the media, and the rest of us. But he’s on the wrong side of that line.

This is a shameful thing to say, @DennisPrager. For a man who's written so much about virtue, you've clearly lost your moral bearings. https://t.co/yQCUfx5miS — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 15, 2017

Western civilization always requires defending from those who say that the media is a threat to civilization. https://t.co/0qE1ndx7Hm — Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) July 15, 2017

There are people defending this in my timeline right now. They have let feelings overtake reason. https://t.co/Inyvo9sq7L — Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) July 15, 2017

dumbest tweet of the summer. https://t.co/FXce4jtf0j — Eli Lake (@EliLake) July 15, 2017







What has happened to the conservative movement is a split between those who have been radicalized by our own propaganda to believe that our fellow Americans are traitors who perpetuate evil, and those of us who understand that we can disagree without dehumanizing our opponent.

People are defining their politics not by positive thoughtful principles, which requires thinking and can be difficult, but rather by how much they hate the other side, which is simple and requires only outrage.

In this case, Prager wants to believe so much that the media is covertly evil that he will downplay the overt actions taken by our historical geopolitical opponent to undermine our country and the West.

If you want evidence one side is more reasonable than the other, the rabid party has to ignore and excuse Putin’s very real monstrosities, like murdering journalists and political opponents, while the other side doesn’t have to cover up media mendacity at all. We just point out that killing journalists is far worse than a bias to the left some journalists have exhibited.

This is really disappointing for me – I used to listen to Dennis Prager for three straight hours a day. He’s one of the reasons I became a politically active conservative.

But with that tweet, he’s showed that he’s left behind the rational, reasonable, principled stand he used to represent.

Now he’s a part of the howling, drooling mob that redefines reality by their emotions.