They are vehement because they are fighting for their existence - literally. With the internet and free social exchange, they have become more and more irrelevant.
It vexes them no end. Besides the financial gains from the chokehold the big three, three letters had on the American Market, their ideological bents ingrained in them in schools of higher ill-learning (liberal dogma)are waning. It wanes with each catcall, guffaw and belly laugh they get when they spout their stupid sh!t on TV, or worse in front of a live audience. They are in fact, irrelevant now. They just don’t know it.
Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, and Dan Rather are rightly relegated to the ash heap of journalism. It is time to put the rest of them out to pasture along with Katie Couric and little Georgia Stephanopolis and Jimmy Rivers.
I heard him on the radio last week bragging about being a republican.