Tolerance

Liberals claim to be the tolerant ones. In many situations, they go out of their way to be overly tolerant. They, however, are not tolerant of other political ideas. I have found liberals to be very intolerant of conservative ideas, they think conservatives should not even have a voice in the nation's political discourse. Conservatives get shouted down on college campuses all the time. Congressional liberals are salivating at the thought of the fairness doctrine being brought back, which will kill talk radio. Never mind the fact that they own most of the print and broadcast media, since they cannot seem to get a foothold in talk radio, they want to shut it down. In fact, biased news is more dangerous than talk radio. Talk radio hosts make no bones about their political leanings, whereas news is supposed to be balanced coverage, which it is not. Not disclosing where you are coming from and reporting something as fact is way more damaging than speaking from a certain point of view and disclosing that point of view. Conservative talk show hosts qualify everything they say as being from a conservative standpoint. When CNN reports something, they report it as fact even though they are reporting it with a leftist tint. So, will the fairness doctrine include MSNBC and CNN? Somehow I doubt it. Hardly seems "fair," right? Back to intolerance, if you disagree with a liberal politically, prepare yourself for an angry retort about how you are wrong, with no substantive argument to back it up, or even worse, a self-righteous tirade of insults calling you a racist or some other name. They will not take the time to learn why you think the way you do. Let us never forget the people saying that you are a racist if you do not vote for Obama. If not liking leftist redistribution politics, and not wanting somebody who embodies those views to occupy the White House makes one a racist, than maybe I am one. I would not vote against anyone because of their race or religion, just like I would not vote for somebody for the same reasons. That does not make me a racist, if fact, quite the opposite.

Don't get me wrong here, conservatives are not always the most tolerant people either, but then again, most do not claim to be. I am just pointing out that liberals claim to be so tolerant, but I guess they get to choose what to be tolerant about. Pretty neat deal for them. Most conservatives, though, are at least willing to let somebody else express their views. Most conservatives will not try to shut down free speech. No conservative I ever heard of has tried to shut down liberal talk radio, but the liberals sure try to silence conservative voices in the name of "fairness," just because they are not very good at radio. They think their way is the only way and all opposing voices should be silenced. They believe conservatives should not be allowed a seat at the table.

Here is an interesting article about this very subject:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80938

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