I also tend to agree with Ames that the conservative fringe element is much more mainstream, although my evidence for it is purely anecdotal. My social circle inevitably includes people of various political persuasions (which makes for very interesting birthday parties), most of which are highly educated, some Ivy, etc. Fringe views, such as “death panels, socialism, Obamanazi, have been expressed by those highly educated people of conservative persuasion, whereas “Bush/GOP = bad” is the worst I hear from my liberal educated friends.

I grew out of my libertarian stage sometime ago, and continue to recoil in horror at a thought that maybe libertarians were right all along and Dems/Republicans got it all wrong. Of course, at this point my political views are much more complex to be able to clearly identify with any single party.

maybe, just maybe, gore in cahoots with obama sent those girls(Ling and Lee) over to North Korea, told them to cross the border and get caught by NK.

then, after a few months of pretend hand wringing, secret talks with lil kim begin, suggesting he request clinton to come to NK. in exchange, we’ll lighten up on the nukes. clinton, in cahoots now with gore and obama and lil kim, enlists the aid of steven bing so as to use his jet. { conveniently picking him, because his dad worked in public health in the LBJ administration (so far removed, who’d ever think that up!!)}

clinton goes to get the girls, who have secretly been living in the lap of luxury in NK, brings them home and in the end everyone is happy because obama gets his healthcare passed!!!

the crazies there actually thought i was serious!!!

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Democrats were saying, “Bush IS doing X and Y, which are unconstitutional/illegal, and he won’t even respond to internal investigations. Maybe impeachment proceedings are necessary.”

Republicans are saying, “Obama wants health care reform, and that makes him an evil person, unfit to be president. Also, socialism is essentially un-American.”

And think about it this way: the Republican mob is freaking out about health care – something that yes, might cost them more, but is being done to help people, Americans. They believe the issue is worth becoming unruly and actually threatening people. How does this make sense? The response is absolutely disproportionate. I do not agree with that assessment of Democratic outrage during Bush’s tenure.

Oh, this isn’t Facebook…

I worry that we have so much media that normalizes some of this behavior that’s not really there for the left.

Say what you want about Olberman, he doesn’t have nearly the clout or ratings that many of the people on Fox have.

And the style of news that traditionally has been vilified by conservatives as the liberal media, doesn’t have call to action to it’s viewers.