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May 3,
2003
The Kids Are All Right
America's
Pre-Teen Conservative Commenators
By WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Noel Coward may once have exhorted Mrs Worthington
not to put her daughter on the stage, but the roar of the greasepaint
and the smell of the crowd no longer seem to hold the attractions
that they once did for the proud parents of tomorrow's budding
child prodigies. In today's increasingly disposable media age,
most modern Mrs Worthingtons appreciate that the relative career
lifespan of darling little Missy will most likely be blighted
by the wandering attentions of a fickle public, ever diminishing
returns and the sad but inevitable onset of puberty. Tomorrow's
Britney's and Christina Aguileras are in all likelihood more
likely to be the next generation of right wing commentators if
the case of teenage WorldNetDaily columnist Kyle Williams is
anything to go by.
Just 14 years old and a regular WorldNetDaily
columnist since 2001, Williams also runs his own Capto
Veritas website with the help of his father, from which the
fresh young prince of American christian conservatism holds forth
on all number of concerns close to the hearts of the typical
American teen. Abortion, homosexual rights, liberal media bias,
separation of church and state and the public school system are
but a few of the issues weighing on the mind of this miniature
policymaker in the making.
'Home schooled in rural Oklahoma, Williams
brings a fresh persepctive to the debate, shattering stereotypes
about the apathy of young people. He is sharp, salient and possesses
a driving desire to expose propaganda in the nation's schools
and media' according to WorldNetDaily top dog Joesph Farah. Moreover,
'He is an encouragement to other young Americans to think clearly
and to express their views.' The young home schooling advocate
has certainly found an enthusiastic patron in Farah, who intends
to publish America's youngest political analyst's first book
('Seen and Heard: A Young American's Voice on Lies and Truths
of Politics and Culture") on his own WND Books imprint in
partnership with Thomas Nelson publishers. Upcoming WND books
include Florida Secretary of State and Bush Florida presidential
campaign co-chair Katherine Harris's 'Centre of the Storm",
a 17 step life skills book based on the 2000 election and 'arguably
one of the biggest controversies in U.S. history".
Heck, let's hear what WorldNetDaily's
Joseph Farah has to say about this bright young man:
'Shortly after I founded a new book-publishing
partnership with Thomas Nelson Publishers--WND Books--I twisted
a few arms and secured the young Mr. Williams his first book
contract. Now, in addition to being America's youngest weekly
pundit, he may also be America's youngest non-fiction author.
Kyle Williams' 'Seen and Heard' is out. I want to ask you to
consider buying the book by this gifted young prodigy and perhaps
giving it to your son, daughter or grandchild to help raise their
own expectations about what they can achieve if they simply put
their mind to it.'
Pitching his book in an email to Young
Conservatives: The Voice of Conservative Voters (colons are a
weapon of choice of the Christian Right), the politically precocious
teen writes 'WND Books will release a title written by yours
truly. The book will cover topics from abortion, to homosexuality,
and public education, to media bias.' Say what you like about
the kid's tenuous grasp of grammatical punctuation, the breadth
and reach of his intended subject matter puts most South Park
watching kids to shame. That is, if the advertising spiel is
any kind of yardstick:
In Seen and Heard, Williams again takes
on the establishment, offering clear evidence that a leftist
agenda is at work in our nation. His lively, energetic analysis
of current events will leave readers with an understanding of
the attack on traditional family values that is taking place
daily. Williams's writing style--sound logic infused with passion
and conviction--makes Seen and Heard both informative and entertaining.
Of course, one swallow does not normally
a summer make. Williams is doubtless the exception rather than
the rule you murmur. Perhaps, perhaps not. Take high school attending
brothers Nathan and Daniel McClintock for instance. These two
ingenuous siblings launched their own Conservative
Press International (CPI News) website one week after the
WTC attack of 9/11. The two brothers eschew the typically more
mundane teenage pursuits of baseball and football in favour of
delivering 'more exclusives and special reports, and in-depth
articles concerning issues facing conservatives such as abortion,
the homosexual agenda, education and more.' Explaining CPI's
editorial objectives, CPI CEO and regular Young Conservatives
contributor Nathan McClintock asserts that:
'Conservatives need news that affects
them, not just the normal day-to-day bias of the liberal elite,'
said Nathan McClintock, ' So, here at CPI News, we are out to
give our conservative audience the hard-core reporting that is
rarely found.'
Daniel McClintock, is no more less forthcoming
than brother Nathan. Extending a fraternal hand of conservative
kinship to Williams on the conservative wunderkind's Capto Veritas
website, he writes: 'America has its Goliath, just as Israel
did those thousands of years ago. No, it is not a giant, but
the decayed, liberal agenda in America. It is the issues such
as abortion, the homosexual agenda, our public school teaching
system, unconstitutional institutions, and the like; and it will
take many Davids to bring down such [a] giant. I am proud to
be able to honestly say that it is one of those Davids I am writing
to today.' For the record, Daniel McClintock is fifteen years
old.
Gresham Kay, the Young Conservatives
Editor-in-Chief, was moved--like the brothers McClintock--to
create a domain for young conservatives directly after 9/11.
Hooked on right wing populist Rush Limbaugh's radio show, Kay
felt compelled to act. Explaining this Damascene conversion to
conservative activism on the Young
Conservatives website, Kay says: 'In listening to him, I
was motivated to do more than listen. I needed to get out there
and do something. You see, I had become increasingly aware of
the fact that I knew more young liberals in school than young
conservatives. There seemed to be no place for young conservatives
to convene, unite and talk about America.'
Bizarrely, Young Conservatives boasts
a Chief Opinion Columnist who is only ten years old. The Indiana
home schooled boy who pens the fortnightly column even insisted
on adopting the 'Chief Opinion Columnist' title as a tribute
to the comparably superannuated Kyle Williams of WorldNetDaily
fame. 'Ronald Reagan, post-Alzheimer's, is better than 90% of
the politicans we have now' according to one perceptive contributor.
Another Young Conservatives columnist began to take a more active
political role as he grew closer to God. More reassuringly, his
other hobbies also include hanging out with friends, ice hockey,
backyard football, basketball and talking deep with cool people.
That's a relief.
Interviewing Kyle Williams for Young
Conservatives, Kay asks the preternaturally articulate fourteen
year old just what it means to be a young conservative:
'The ongoing debate within conservative
circles has been a struggle to define conservatism. This has
led to many labels inside the right wing, namely 'neo-conservative"
to describe mainstream conservatism and 'paleo-conservative"
to describe the old-right, the traditional conservatives. However,
my personal opinion on being a young conservative is this: a
belief in the principals of the founding fathers, self-government,
and the most freedom possible for America, but also includes
the morality, a core part of the right wing of politics.'
On the issue of abortion, the clear headed
youngster brooks no compromise: 'I believe abortion is a state
issue. So, do away with Roe V. Wade through a constitutional
amendment. Then Congress should strike down any abortion legislation
already passed and bar federal courts from hearing the issues
of abortion.'
It would be all too easy to write off
the fiercely homophobic and pro-life conservative opinions of
Kyle Williams, Gresham Kay and the McClintock brothers as being
the eccentric but ultimately harmless Shirley Temple with added
politics routine played out by kids whose Mrs Worthington-like
ambitions have long since abandoned the more innocent pleasures
associated with treading the boards. How else to explain a ten
year old Chief Opinion Columnist? Like pre-pubescent child stars
and redneck hillbilly child pastors, they're interesting to look
at--a diversion at most--but ultimately nothing more. Wrapping
up his interview with the disarmingly assured fourteen year old
WorldNetDaily pundit, Kay invites Williams to map out his hopes
for the conservative future: 'Some think I'm a spokesperson
for my generation. I would have to disagree with that, but I
do hope to maybe send a wake up call to my peers. This is the
generation that could fight back the evils of terrorism and keep
the forces of socialism at bay. Can we do it? Time will tell.'
William MacDougall can be reached at: wmacdougall@msn.com.
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