The “angry” adjective is often applied to conservatives, often unfairly. After all, we conservatives are certainly no angrier than liberals who equate Bush with Hitler or Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and Clarence Thomas, and even Juan Williams with house niggers.
But the appellation is not entirely unfair. Conservatives are angry, but they are angry for different reasons than liberals. Liberals are angry because, incomprehensibly, in spite of their “liberal” enlightenment, most people disagree with them. Conservatives are angry because even though most people agree with them, they are nevertheless demonized by the establishment as stupid, racist, homophobic, bloodthirsty, and, yes, angry.
It is an interesting phenomenon. Conservatives outnumber moderates and liberals, and yet the mainstream media, both news and entertainment, movies, TV, music, academia, the entire artistic community, and the intellectual elite in general, are all overwhelmingly liberal. In other words, Liberals are in control of everyone’s public image, no matter who you are.
No wonder conservatives are angry. Before Rush and Fox, every time an ordinary American turned on the TV, or read the paper, or listened to the radio, or went to the movies, or attended class, or went to a mainstream Protestant church, it was more likely than not that she would be subjected to an impervious, self-righteous point of view that called her nasty names, a point of view that denied even being a point of view, that claimed the mantle of objective truth.
Fox, and Rush Limbaugh before Fox, discovered an unexploited niche demographic, namely 50% of the American people, which necessarily means that Fox News is not a real news organization, and Rush Limbaugh is a racist extremist.
There’s a difference between being a conservative and being bigoted and narrow minded. I think a true conservative would be more gracious, diplomatic and forthright knowing that his opinion is grounded in sound economic principles and not in colorful sound bites to get ratings…