Relentless Thuggery

Conservatives are behaving like piranhas: they attack a prey and never leave until all that is left are its lifeless bones. And they succeed by virtue of their numerous appeals to the masses and the reactions they elicit, among which are the worst and ugliest of human nature.

ACORN is the conservatives' latest victim (though they still are attacking president Obama and others). Rachel Maddow does a tremendously good job of exposing and unmasking the forces behind the conspiracy against ACORN:

What happened to Republicans' appeal to the 'better angels of our nature,' so vivid 150 years ago?

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham LINCOLN

Free Press & Conservatives

Apparently, they don't match.

At a forum of sorts called Values Voter Summit, an MSNBC reporter gets harassed by audience members.

But wait, there's more! Two for the price of one: they do the same to a Fox News reporter who seems more compliant than his MSNBC colleague with the unreasonable requests to leave and stop reporting.

(Source: TPM)

And What Are You Watching?

According to this poll, 12% of those polled watch Fox News, 15% watch CNN, at 6% watch MSNBC on a daily basis. The numbers are slightly different for weekly and monthly viewership.

The numbers also appear to show a geographic bias. Fox News appears to be extremely popular in the South and extremely unpopular in the Northeast. MSNBC reverses that trend. CNN seems to be the more mainstream one, as well as the most trusted source of news overall. I don't know why... they kinda suck. And we all know how I feel about Fox News.