We’ve been hearing it for years, at least since the Reagan Era: conservatives are mean, conservatives embrace hatred, conservatives want to take away all our rights, conservatives want to be totalitarians.

Yet the reality of those claims is far different. The venom spewed from America’s liberal elite is far more caustic, self-serving, intolerant and totalitarian than anything coming from the mainstream Right.  And it’s getting worse.

The two-faced nature of the liberal elite is evidenced no better than in the push for expansion of the “fairness doctrine” in broadcasting – which would effectively negate the only voices in broadcasting which are conservatives in nature by forcing broadcasters to present “opposing viewpoints” to each and every political point made by the likes of a Sean Hannity, Jerry Doyle or Walton & Johnson – basically, anything they disagree with.

The same folks who cry about the need to defend freedom of speech are, in fact, trying to limit that definition to include only that with which they agree.

Discounting the crazed religious bigots like the members of the Topeka, Kan., Westboro Baptist Church and a few others, conservatives in general -- while espousing strong opinions -- have rarely stooped to actively wishing harm on those they disagree with. Not so the Left – even supposedly “responsible” liberals like members of the news media and entertainers.

Veteran CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg, in an interview with NewsMax.com promoting his book, "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News," cites several examples of left-wing members of the news media saying truly hateful things about conservatives which, were the shoe on the other foot, would lose them their jobs: 

* "[I]f there is retributive justice [Sen. Jesse Helms] will get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it." – PBS’s Nina Totenberg