The right is wrong on liberal bias
I am always amused if not a little irritated when I hear complaints from conservatives that journalists and college professors are mostly liberals and are pushing liberal bias. I haven’t checked out how valid the claim is, mostly because I don’t much care, but the conservatives need to put a sock in it and quit whining.
Here is the simple fact of the matter: If conservatives did a better job at inspiring their children to go into journalism and education, there would be more conservatives in those professions and all that liberal bias would go out the window. Duh.
So while it may be true that those professions tend to attract more liberals, it is only the fault of the conservatives. You can’t fault a liberal for wanting to be a professor or a newsperson. Those are great jobs. At least those folks are working. And it’s better than shoveling poop. Would conservatives rather have them living on unemployment and welfare? Then we’d have to listen to conservatives whine about that, too. (I’m also amused that conservatives usually accuse liberals of being the whiners, yet here they are crying, “Colleges and news outlets are too liberal. Boohoo.Waaaa.”)
The real question is: Why don’t more conservatives choose journalism and education as a profession? I don’t know the answer to that one and I can’t even speculate.
Conservative seem to pride themselves on being of the practical, hard-nosed and common sense wing of politics. But they are way off the mark on this one. So, conservatives, teach your youth the value of education and freedom of the press and quit crying about liberal bias like little girly-men.
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Well, Trevor, glad to see a picture of you because you don't look like the person I had pictured. Nor do you look like a liberal. At least I don't think you do, but then I can never spot a liberal alive or in a picture or even on a soap box. The only way I would know one would be to catch one and see what it eats. But at my age it's not likely I'll catch anything that runs faster than a cold. Aside from all that, I just want to say that I'll bet a dollar two ninety-eight that those so-called people who express such extreme hatred for liberals in Post Comments also wouldn't recognize a liberal if they passed one on the street. What they are really doing is giving vent to their natural human instinct, passed down from pre-historic times, that makes it necessary for people to hate someone or some group so that the despised ones can be relegated to a lower level on the social scale. Humans can't feel good about hating someone better or higher up than themselves. That notch is reserved for those we admire or adore. So as time goes on and we lose our freedom to hate other tribe members, Jews, blacks, etc., we must find a new place to focus our hate. So why not liberals, for the time being? It beats hating your pet rock. And the green grass grows all around all around.
Posted by: Dode Penrod | March 2, 2008 03:05 AM