The Stupid Game
More than a year ago, while participating in a panel discussion on the radio I asked the question: Can anyone name a liberal Democrat over the past twenty five years who has been labeled stupid? As the saying goes, the silence was deafening. The fact is that there isn't a single democrat that has been characterized as an idiot, buffoon or stupid-they have all been conservatives. Less one believes that this is a coincidence, then there is something rotten in mediaville . You can go back as far as Gerald Ford, who was relentlessly parodied as clumsy and bumbling by Chevy Chase and the Saturday Night Live crew at the time. Ford-who was an outstanding athlete in his day- made the mistake of falling down while coming off of Air Force one during a visit to Austria and has forever been portrayed by the comedic left as clumsy. Chase admitted in a 2008 interview that their lampooning of Ford was deliberate since he was "not their guy". The plethora of comedians who now moonlight