You just refuted the rest of your own post pretty effectively there.
Remember the phrase "...and I can see Russia from my house!"
Not Sarah Palin. Tina Fey. Most people really think that Sarah said that, and therefore dismiss her as an idiot.
And yet such remarks which are designed and intended (particularly when part of what Limbaugh calls a "journalistic front") to take out the reputation and credence of a conservative.
Remember the Saturday Night Live skit where the New York Times staffer suggests that the Palin family engaged in incest?
Why did they suggest that about the Palins? Have they ever suggested that about ANY other candidate for President or Vice-President, in all of US History?
Why doesn't Letterman tell a joke or Mel Reynolds (former US Congressman, Democrat, from Chicago) having sex with one of Obama's daughters? (And then of course, her "not being punished with a baby.")
Oh, and in case you forgot, Mel Reynolds was a US Congressman from Chicago, has a Master's from Harvard, and is a Rhodes Scholar...and still lost his career over *CONVICTIONS* of having sex with an 16-year-old intern. For real, not just "jokes" on Saturday Night Live or Letterman. But somehow to mention facts, if the person involved happens to be black, still opens one up to the spurious charge of "that's racist!" So, if you want another example, about Gerry Studds (Democrat, Massachusetts, censured by Congress for doing a 17-year-old page) doing Letterman's *own* son?
The double standard is what allows liberals Communists to take and maintain power.
And this is why continuing past the point at which the rubble bounces (to paraphrase Winston Churchill, not Ward) is vital. To borrow counter-culture language, we are "consciousness raising" (gaining mindshare in marketing-speak), we are "sending a message" and "making a difference".
This oppositional behaviour is the very currency of the left; it is the only thing they understand; and they have counted on the acquiescence of the right for too long.
Cheers!
But it goes both ways.
I think anyone would have a hard time arguing that Bill Clinton was not the most joked about president in recent history.
Monica... Hillary... Jennifer Flowers... his real estate deals, his sexual conquests.
I totally agree (and never contested) that the media tends to have a liberal viewpoint.
But even that fact, BY ITSELF, is not a reason to shut it down or silence it.
After all, all the great generals from history will tell you the same thing: You need to know your enemy. You need to know what he is thinking.