Funny thing about liberals

My observation so far is that conservatives will fall in line behind their leader no matter what he does or says. Liberals or progressives on the other hand are convinced that their leaders will sell them out at the earliest opportunity and interpret actions and words in the most negative way possible. While I get a little tired of all the cries of "traitor" and "sellout", it pretty much negates the argument I get from conservatives that I don't know the "real truth" because I only get info from the "Obama-loving liberal media" (hmm...[blank]-lover! where have I heard that before?).

I won't go into a diatribe about how the news media in the US is owned by large corporations and how that biases their product to the benefit of those corporations (such as profiting from war, via government contracts). But, I will say that there is a striking difference between watching Fox continue to cheerlead for the last administration's torture policies and watching Olbermann or Maddow take President Obama to task for not calling for criminal investigations into those policies. I think that a lot of the angst on the left is a product of getting their asses handed to them by the conservatives for most of the last 40 years, but the instinct is correct: question authority.