Now, if I saw the same newscast I would be standing next to my father as if it were a championship football game shouting at the TV as if the refs had made an obviously bad call against my favorite team.

Yes, I am a bigger ranter and raver than my Dad was (and still is). Yet, I realize that this form of "yellow journalism" has been around since the founding of the American Nation. Two of our most prominent founding fathers also founded newspapers. Alexander Hamilton founded the New York Post, and Jefferson had his own fish-rap-rag.

Hamilton was a strong federalist and Jefferson was a firm oponent of federalism. The two papers went at it like a couple of punch drunk boxers in a saturday afternoon bar-room brawl, bare knuckled and bloody. They attacked their oponent's ideas, and they also attacked their opponent's personally. The invective flew, mud was everywhere.

"Yellow Journalism" played its part in bringing the U.S. to war any number of times. In the Civil War papers fired salvos on the slavery question on a daily basis. The Spanish American War was largely fought because the Papers wanter a war. Remember the Maine?

Thus, as much as I rail at the fools on the left who distort news, views and every other facet of their broadcasts or articles, I realize that they have every right to do so and march in a long parade of men, even honorable men who have done the same thing.

Even so, their way of going about influencing public opinion in the guise of informing the public seems somewhat hypocritical and even cowardly. I say, if you hold an opinion, if you have a perspective, then say so. It seems to me that tiny tid-bit of information is also vital to the public in making up their minds on an article.

So, go ahead, when the six o'clock news comes on shout at the TV, you might even want to pull an Elvis and put a bullet or two through the screen. But when you do, remember who and what those broadcasters are, and that the reason they are there is because people listen to them. The best way to counter idiocy in the press is to start supporting the conservative view in whatever way you can. Read Conservative Magazines, watch conservative news shows and support conservative websites.

With your help the conservative message can be just as effective and prevalent as that on the left. And when you hear someone whining about how biased Rush Limbaugh or The Conservative Bookstore is, just tell them about Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and all those other "Yellow Journalists."