South Park Conservatives: The Revolt against Liberal Media Bias by Brian C. Anderson (Regnery, 256 pp., $24.95) Remember the good old days when Time could compare Ronald Reagan's life and his supporters to Forrest Gump's and get away with it? Fortunately, those days are over, as Brian Anderson tells us in his new biopic of the emerging cultural uprising against "illiberal liberalism," the Fairness Doctrine, political correctness, "stinky hippy" college professors, and all things Barbra Streisand.

In South Park Conservatives, Anderson first delves into the world of "the new media"--talk radio, blogs, and Fox News--and offers a colorful description of each new outlet and its often audacious pioneers.

These new media outlets, bolstered in quantity and quality by the rise of technology, have become the conservative movement's primary spearheads in public discourse.

Since "the old-media regime long made it hard for the Right to get a fair hearing for its ideas and beliefs," Anderson makes it seem only logical that conservatives took advantage of the radio waves, cable television, and the Internet.

Inspired by new media's message, many young Americans have become part of an "anti-liberal counterculture" committed to ignoring political correctness. While many members of this movement are traditional conservatives, others are "South Park Republicans," who have adopted certain conservative beliefs but not others.

"The label is really about rejecting the image of conservatives as uptight squares. We might have long hair, smoke cigarettes, get drunk on weekends . . . and also happen to be conservative," one undergraduate told Anderson.

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