{"id":94748,"date":"2016-05-04T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94748"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:05:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:05:48","slug":"daily-caller-interviews-the-man-behind-the-twitter-handle-conservative-pundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94748","title":{"rendered":"Daily Caller Interviews The Man Behind The Twitter Handle &#8216;Conservative Pundit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/05\/03\/the-man-behind-the-hilarious-conservative-pundit-parody-account-speaks-out\/#ixzz47egNRuFD\">From the Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Put in the voice of a hypothetical National Review writer who believes Democrats are the real racists, Mr. Pundit tweets out his thoughts on a wide variety of issues.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of some of his latest tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joke&#8217;s on you, BLM activists and supporters, because incoherent, anti-white, anti-American rage is ACTUALLY a traditional Republican value.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conservative Pundit (@DemsRRealRacist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemsRRealRacist\/status\/727198188160045056\">May 2, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-rocketsrc=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/rocketscript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>\nThe longer Trump continues to spew vitriol, the less chance the GOP has to recruit fine young Americans like these: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1CilkYSNtf\">pic.twitter.com\/1CilkYSNtf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conservative Pundit (@DemsRRealRacist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemsRRealRacist\/status\/725915425339404288\">April 29, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-rocketsrc=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/rocketscript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1422917324169-1-5019008' style=\"padding-bottom:5px\" align=\"center\">\n<script type=\"text\/rocketscript\">\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1422917324169-1-5019008'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If I had been alive in the 1940s, I would have earned medals for Meritorious Warmongering and Bravery Under Really Tight Article Deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conservative Pundit (@DemsRRealRacist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemsRRealRacist\/status\/725755238637035521\">April 28, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-rocketsrc=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/rocketscript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>\nThe Republican base is embarrassingly out of touch with its pundit class.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conservative Pundit (@DemsRRealRacist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemsRRealRacist\/status\/724624716510556160\">April 25, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-rocketsrc=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/rocketscript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OK. I know I&#8217;m 0 for 317 on my Trump predictions so far this election cycle, but LISTEN to me: he CAN&#8217;T beat Hillary. Totally un-possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conservative Pundit (@DemsRRealRacist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemsRRealRacist\/status\/727600204401147905\">May 3, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-rocketsrc=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/rocketscript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>\nGuess after Indiana it&#8217;s time to start exploring a brave new world of conservative punditry where Hillary is the last hope for America.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conservative Pundit (@DemsRRealRacist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemsRRealRacist\/status\/727637046831931392\">May 3, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-rocketsrc=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/rocketscript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller was fortunate enough to track down the man behind the account &#8212; who wished to remain unidentified &#8212; to find out what inspired him to start the account and why he&#8217;s driven to satirize the poor souls who can&#8217;t stop tweeting #NeverTrump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The DC: What was the inspiration for the Conservative Pundit account?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conservative Pundit: I started it one night on a whim and didn&#8217;t really expect it to take off like it has, so maybe \u201cinspiration\u201d is a little strong. But I did create it out of a general sense of frustration with the ineffectiveness of, well, conservative punditry.<\/p>\n<p>I guess a lot of that frustration emerges from my conviction that the Left hasn&#8217;t had an original thought in years. They&#8217;ve hit an intellectual dead end, and rather than re-assessing their theories they&#8217;ve instead contented themselves for the past couple decades in finding increasingly nonsensical and bizarre applications <em>for <\/em>those theories. Like a great big hunt for the next \u201csystemic oppression\u201d to write a <em>Slate <\/em>article about. It&#8217;s a movement that&#8217;s culminating in things like mass campus hysteria over a poop swastika and solemn thinkpieces in defense of rioting and arson. That&#8217;s the kind of stuff their intellectual vanguard is up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Caller: Put in the voice of a hypothetical National Review writer who believes Democrats are the real racists, Mr. Pundit tweets out his thoughts on a wide variety of issues. Here&#8217;s a sampling of some of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94748\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94750,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94748\/revisions\/94750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}