The truth told about modern conservatives

Here are two absolute must reads for anyone interested in the liberal versus conservative debate.

First, reading Jim David's entertaining The Conservatives Made Me Do It would be time well spent. David accurately notes concerning modern conservatives that

They use violent rhetoric against liberals, earn millions, and call it "entertainment." In one of her speeches at a conservative conference, Ann Coulter said, "We need to execute people like [American Taliban] John Walker [Lindh] in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too." She also "joked" that the best way to talk to liberals would be with baseball bats. Michael Savage told a caller to his former MSNBC television show, "Get AIDS and die, you pig." Commentator Dick Morris, on a break from sucking prostitutes' toes, wrote a book that labeled liberals as "traitors" who should be decapitated. When the public cries foul, they backtrack with "Just kidding."

Next, I highly recommend Scott Cawelti's Why are conservatives so angry?

Cawelti begins with this observation:

One trait seems to mark most die-hard conservatives: anger. They're furious fit-pitchers. And they seem to have come out of the chute that way, not starting life as good-natured, easygoing types who saw the light, but as rhetorical flame-throwers from diaperhood. Was Ann Coulter ever good-natured?

But what makes this editorial gold is the three reasons Cawelti advances for explaining conservative anger. Sure makes a lot of sense to me.

I hope everyone follows the links above and enjoys these bits.