Former MTV “Real World” cast member Rachel Campos-Duffy wishes that more conservatives – particularly younger ones – would actually take on their liberal counterparts in the mainstream media.
In fact Campos-Duffy, who serves as the national spokeswoman for the LIBRE Initiative and is married to Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy (R), believes that it’s the only way for conservatives to effectively get their message out there.
“How can we win the culture war if we aren’t in the room?” Campos-Duffy told participants at the Young America’s Freedom 2013 National Conference in Washington, D.C. Thursday. “If we aren’t sitting at that table? If we aren’t in front of, or behind the camera?”
To that effect, Campos-Duffy often appears on “liberal” or “insufficiently serious” TV shows that her contemporaries wouldn’t touch, like NBC’s “TODAY” and ABC’s “The View.” She told the crowd that conservatives can often have a superiority complex about shows like that, allowing the left to be more visible to Americans more focused on those who solely get their news from pop culture.
“We can’t afford to snub popular culture, we cannot afford to be afraid of it, we can’t afford to sit back and cede it to the left,” she said.
Campos-Duffy also stressed the idea of being open-minded about ideas and concepts they don’t normally agree with, using an example from her days on the MTV show where she brought her castmates to a conservative conference that they ultimately deemed to be “racist.”
“They refused to take anything substantive from that conference other than an appraisal of skin color,” Campos-Duffy said. “Their liberal orthodoxy prevented them from hearing the universal message of economic freedom and self determination.”
