Personal Attacks for being Conservative

In the time span of 10 minutes, I have been bombarded through television (HBO's Bill Maher) and radio (106.7 WJFK "The Hideout with El Jefe & J-Dubs) about how I have the wool pulled over my eyes because I'm a Republican.

This is offensive to me, and I imagine, to many other people who are like me. With Democrats, you're talking about a political party who is supposed to "tolerate differences" yet must resort to having its mainstream representatives use name-calling and present stereotypes because they are unable to mount a defense to the countering viewpoint. People are insulted even though they may have well-thought out, justified beliefs.

Arnold Schwarzenegger highlighted during his convention speech how Republicans can be different from one another.

Another complaint of the left? Fox News. Let me tell you something about Fox News: It is the result of 10-15 years of talk radio successfully migrating to the cable TV networks. Plain and simple. They present the news in an entertaining way, and they have television variations of talk radio programs. And wouldn't you know it, they have the #1 viewership of any cable news network, oftentimes topping MSNBC and CNN combined.

NPR has been around forever. You have copycat left-leaning networks like Air America, but no substantial listenership for them. Is it because people who actually work for a living listen to conservative talk radio? Probably. Bernie Ward, a left-leaning local talk radio host in San Francisco (KGO-810 AM) doesn't have the 10PM-12AM weekday time slot because people listen to him coming home from work.

And liberals continue to be perplexed at the power of the Right.