Crowder Drove Me Here

Not one single one of us is ever going to get the political landscape arraigned to our complete satisfaction. This reminds me of military service where every single private, including me, thought we knew how to run a Corps better than the Generals who actually did run it.

In the military, if you didn’t bitch you weren’t alive because the only happy troop is a dead one. We Conservatives are a lot like this except this isn’t the military and we individual people can do a lot of damage to our own cause by being exclusionary and exclusivist.

I generally speak up on this sort of thing on a regular basis. It’s a ‘big picture’ view of our situation. I also catch a lot of grief from other Conservatives because I do that. So thank you for taking the time to say you agree with me. I think a lot of Conservatives do agree with both of us but not enough of them make the effort to say so. Which only fuels the problem.

I thought something about Crowder’s proclamations smelled fishy and so when Jeremy Boring’s rebuttal, and it was kindly and respectfully done, popped up on my YouTube recommendations today I clicked on it immediately. I watched his whole presentation carefully. Jeremy Boring went through the whole document line by line.

Crowder was asking for way too much, his claims were untrue in some instances while exaggerated in others, his grasp of standard business practices was juvenile and what he was whining about wasn’t even a contract it was a proposal subject to arbitration, negotiation and approval of a final draft. That was what the Daily Wire would have liked to get, not what they really expected to happen. No one tried to screw Crowder over.

If anyone screwed Steven Crowder over, it was Steven Crowder.

I like Steven Crowder too. I think he’s very entertaining and amusing and as long as I can watch his videos for free I do that when I have nothing better to do. Which admittedly isn’t all that often.

What I don’t like is this this business of destroying useful, active, aggressive warriors for our cause just because you can make it look like, or even when it is actual and not an impression, they did something ‘non-Conservative’.

I’m now convinced that Boring didn’t try to take advantage of Crowder, Crowder tried to use his friends at The Daily Wire in an underhanded fashion for his own gain.

This circular firing squad thing would be sort of like if as a Marine I decided to shoot down U.S Air Force aircraft just because the pilots don’t live in the mud and survive on C-Rats (now MREs). After all, those pilots are not Combat Marines so screw ’em, right?

Wrong, weakening our own forces out of small minded spite, vituperous bile and a misguided sense of ideological purity is always a stupid idea whether you’re a Marine in a fighting hole or a Conservative trying to combat the damage the Left is doing to our society and nation.

I don’t mean any disrespect to our new member Ross Spencer. I’m just trying to get Conservatives to understand the consequences of the less-than-wise things they do sometimes.

Sometime today Crowder released a secretly recorded (by Crowder) segment of a telephone conversation with Jeremy Boring that was presented completely out of context.

It was a pretty blatant attempt at character assassination. Crowder presented it as if he were ‘exposing’ Boring somehow. It was a very underhanded attack that didn’t actually demonstrate what Crowder was claiming it did.

That pretty much burns Crowder’s bridges with everyone. If you can’t have a conversation with someone on the phone without your side being taken out of context and used to promote the person on the other end unfairly then no one is going to want to talk to Crowder on the phone. There’s just no way to be sure you’re not being set up and used for click harvesting.

I don’t know what mistaken ideas Crowder is operating under but he’s going about it in a manner that is clearly meant to be self promotional — At the expense of other people who have done no harm to Steven Crowder or anyone else.

Even Mark Dice, who’s pretty anti-establishment on the conservative side, is saying Crowder is doing this and is wholly in the wrong.

Now I don’t always agree with Mark Dice but if he’s saying Crowder is wrong considering how much Dice detests Ben Shapiro … That’s a sea change.

All of that said, this is a situation that clearly exposes the dangers of hero worship. Crowder is turning out to be a less than honorable person, to put it kindly. People that worship him as a hero are at the very least misguided.

It doesn’t matter who the hero being worshipped is, they can never live up to their own worshipper’s ideals.

That’s one of the reasons why I subscribe here. I hold Bill, Scott and Steve in high regard but there’s no way that could be considered hero worship. They’re just guys like us and that’s their great appeal.

When one of them stands on principles, I have no doubt about their genuine sincerity. Scott even takes a considerable amount of grief for doing that.

After what Crowder has pulled recently, he’s nowhere near the caliber of our guys on BWC as a person. He’s young and he may yet learn his lessons and become a major force someday so I’m not writing him off completely. I’m not impressed by his behavior lately in any event.

Sneakily recording people who thought you were their friend and colleague so that you can twist what they say out of context for your own self benefit is not the mark of a good man.

That does more damage to our side of the political battle than it helps.

I do hope Crowder gets his act together and I wish him well but at this point in time he’s his own worst enemy. No one else could do the damage to Steven Crowder that Steven Crowder is doing to himself.