[conservatism_IS_compassion]

They don't LIKE the people they supposedly champion, and find the idea of non-journalistic or non-political work distasteful and suspicious.

"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - Theodore Roosevelt

Journalists don't agree with that, because they are the ones who do nothing but talk - and who promote themselves by tearing down the "doers" with criticism and second guessing. Journalists promote big government, and simultaneously attack the police and the military mercilessly even though they are sine qua non for government. And the reason is that journalists can't stand for anyone to get credit for actually doing something. To them, the credit belongs only to the critic.

[Darkwolf377]

Well-put. That's one of the things the explosion of punditry on TV has done--make us a society of people who are so damned critical of those who do and fail, because of course WE weren't stupid enough to try something like that!

Pundits sit there and critique, and throw mud at those who have the nerve not to succeed. The only one who succeeds all the time is the one who never TRIES anything great--the critic.