Patrick Hynes is the president of New Media Strategics, a blog relations consultancy. He is the proprietor of Ankle Biting Pundits and the author of In Defense of the Religious Right (Nelson Current). http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ We conservatives are struggling through a Great Depression, don't you know. A Great Depression of ideas; a Great Depression of spirit; a Great Depression of optimism. I know, because TIME Magazine has told me so. Of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/03/31/cheer_up! 463b0488-d2f5-4bbe-a9a6-d44227e59d17 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT Sen. Hillary Clinton tested her new campaign theme-that there really is a "vast rightwing conspiracy" at the -"100 Club" dinner in Nashua, NH last week. "You know, the Republicans did make a little bit out about the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/03/17/a_conspiracy_so_vast 70029937-57e8-4f99-a109-d9e8ecf258bc Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT A narrative is beginning to form among the top-tier of presidential candidates of both parties. This narrative is not ideological in scope or definition. We are seeing two pools of candidates form: Authentic ones whose... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/02/24/2008_authentic_statesmen_versus_synthetic_politicians 52880cc7-cfc3-4702-90b7-c22410c8f363 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:01:49 GMT Whenever I give a speech (or get started on a rant) I explain the power of the New Media this way: Consuming news in the Old Media environment is a "lean back" experience while consuming news in the New Media... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/02/10/news_consumption_in_a_"lean_forward"_environment 893be88b-c56d-4991-b604-7a204fec62fd Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:01:00 GMT Utah Governor Jon Huntsman tells a story of how he was stuck in Vietnam while on a trip when the enemy struck America on September 11th, 2001. While waiting for clearance to come home he decided to visit the so-called... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/02/03/just_another_weekend_in_new_hampshire 87c4cfd1-c1fa-478a-bfd8-25dcb04fd437 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:00:01 GMT Hugh Hewitt is concerned that Sen. John McCain, who is my client, does not engage the new media. And believe me, when Hugh blogs, I take it seriously-he is a powerful evangelist for our medium. But he needn't be as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/01/23/sen_mccain_and_the_new_media c431320f-a9d7-465b-aa7c-9532bba746e2 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:00:12 GMT Did a majority of Americans vote for Democrats on Nov. 7th, 2006 because they were sick and tired of men running the show? Did America decide it was time to smash the "marble ceiling"? Of course not. We know from exit... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/01/20/girl_power! d10f2e1a-2686-47b2-b02d-93d4fc1dedd7 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:08:15 GMT YouTube is the hottest thing in American politics today. Just ask former Virginia Senator George Allen (emphasis on former). On the morning of August 15th, 2006 very few Americans had ever heard the quasi-word "macaca"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/01/13/you_and_the_tube cdbf84d5-4010-4146-8024-49149b6d189a Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:00:10 GMT Once it became clear during the 2006 campaign that the Republicans would probably lose both Houses of Congress, some conservatives suggested that a bloodletting might not be such a bad thing. It takes an occasional... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2007/01/06/senate_republicans_to_take_the_new_media_seriously 714b625a-56a1-498a-88db-20f4a29aeb5e Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:00:28 GMT At some point in the last eighteen months, a meme was born in the mainstream press that has, so far as I can tell, no basis in fact. According to this meme, politically active evangelical Christians are an "up for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2006/05/31/are_evangelicals_swing_voters 0b73e5e5-ae91-4e4d-908f-a1079ddce223 Wed, 31 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT Washington Monthly reporter Amy Sullivan thinks evangelical Christians are ripe for the Democrats’ picking. Positively giddy at the prospects of "the party of Nancy Pelosi" converting just enough... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2006/03/23/converting_the_humble,_the_meek,_and_the_dems 163d4857-3add-4754-886f-8ec3d564eb7b Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:06:01 GMT In a recent USA Today op-ed, Tom Krattenmaker argues that “playing the God card” has backfired on President George W. Bush. The president’s favorability has fallen through the floor, Krattenmaker... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2006/02/14/democrats_misplay_god_card a1b907a7-8ac9-4ade-b051-94c16a477692 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:05:00 GMT A recent report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research provides penetrating insight into the role of religion in America. Outside coverage from ABC News, however, the report hasn’t received the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2005/11/28/time_to_rethink_the_religious_right_stereotype bd1a1e45-5801-4f97-8a7e-4ef1904168c2 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:05:00 GMT I probably don’t need to tell Townhall.com readers that the invisible hand of free-market competition has a way of shoving fat-and-happy industries into providing better products and higher quality services, all... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2005/10/18/communications_revolution_awaits_regulatory_reform 4ee7aff2-8c7d-42cc-9325-461278d8bfdb Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:05:00 GMT "Dean, former governor of neighboring Vermont and a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, said Romney has 'changed his position two or three times on fundamental issues, like a woman's right to make up her own... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickHynes/2005/08/03/framing,_shmaming_new_phenomenon_is_just_the_same_old_double_talk 25fcc5a3-2682-41d9-8d6e-d4ea0bbf2204 Wed, 03 Aug 2005 04:00:00 GMT