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I was just a kid during the 1980 election, but I remember the visceral hatred that the liberal media had for Reagan.

I was a volunteer for the Reagan/Bush staff during the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. This was before C-SPAN and the Internet. The RNC ran their own channel covering the event. We would watch it as we were waiting for assignments. It was great because they carried all the speeches for those of us who either didn't have credentials or tickets to attend the convention. That coverage had none of the voiceovers telling us what we had just heard like all the lamestreamers tend to do.

I came home after witnessing first hand Ronald Reagan's speech. I stood not too far from Diane Sawyer while Our President was giving his acceptance speech. And, yet when I got home that evening and caught the evening news I could not believe how biased and negative the coverage was. That was my first awakening. By 1993, I was no longer subscribing to the newspaper.

And they wonder why CNN has only 100,000 viewers.

Stunning, wasn’t it? I would watch Reagan give a speech from start to finish, be jazzed up, and then listen to the commentators twist all he said into a pretzel. Later, Time and Newsweek would completely distort his speech. At the time, I was trying to become more informed and this confused the heck out of me, why were the reporters and commentators doing this?? Years later, it took Rush Limbaugh to explain the bias of the media.

I woke up to the media bias when I went to the Rally for Life in Washington in April, 1990. It was one of the largest crowds to ever attend a rally in Washington. UPI reported 800,000 people in their first wire report. The next day, CNN said “60,000 attended”(!), and the rest of the media said 150-200,000(when they covered the event at all). It was a real eye opener.

I came home after witnessing first hand Ronald Reagan's speech. I stood not too far from Diane Sawyer while Our President was giving his acceptance speech. And, yet when I got home that evening and caught the evening news I could not believe how biased and negative the coverage was. That was my first awakening. By 1993, I was no longer subscribing to the newspaper

My political awareness of the bias of the media happened much the same way. I watched Oliver North's testimony to congress on Cspan (I think) and remember coming away thinking that he was a straight shooter and was absolutely being honest and straight forward about what he was saying. THEN later I watched the news and read the newspaper. Night and day. Knew right then I couldn't trust the media to tell me how to think.

I miss the unvarnished days where we could actually listen to the whole speak and nothing but the whole speech.

I also canceled all my newspaper and news magazine subscriptions right around 1993 too. Interesting?....

....and I'd started to listen to Rush in 1992.

Of course, then I watched us kick out the Democrats in the House and Senate in 1994 and laughed all night watching those same media genius's gape at what was happening.

I'm hoping for more of this in this election cycle but I'm pretty sure the Lamestream media are already composing a database full of all the excuses they're going to pump into the teleprompters for election night coverage.

Have you ever noticed that the only time the media actually is "physically working" these days is when they're busy making up excuses for Democratic failures?