“When the left enters, diversity of thought goes.” That statement by Dennis Prager, just as I was getting out of my car to go to work was profound. He had been leading up to that statement by saying that the right considers the left wrong and the left considers the right evil. He had been giving numerous examples of left leaning people that would not give the time of day to a person who expressed an opinion from the right. Dennis said that this problem had been occurring since Karl Marx. Also, all fascist states, from the Nazi's to the communists, have been from the left.

What brought this all on was the Miss USA beauty contest. Miss California had answered a question about Vermont granting gay marriage and what did she think the rest of the states should do. Miss California said that she was glad she lived in a country where people could choose both. She then elaborated more on that thought and closed with the fact that in her family she was brought up that marriage was between a man and a woman. She closed that she did not want to give offense to anyone. Perez Hilton, one of the judges, went ballistic, called her nasty names and called her intelligence into question on U-Tube. Yesterday, one of the co-chairs of the Miss USA Pageant went on CBS and basically said that if you do not have leftist views, you cannot win a beauty contest. She said that Miss California had not been compassionate in her answer. In my mind, I could not think of a more compassionate and inclusive answer to the question. I would have been much blunter.

At almost all colleges and universities, you have to hold leftist opinions to be hired. If you have ever put forth a conservative opinion in public, you have little chance of being hired as a full-time faculty member. If you manage to get past the hiring committee and they find out that you have conservative views, you have little chance of being promoted to full professor. The quality of your scholarship is not important. Your ability to teach is not important. If you hold conservative ideas, you have little chance to get past the leftist gatekeepers. When conservatives ran the colleges and universities there were many liberals and Marxists that taught at the schools and attained full professorship. Today, that cannot be said of conservatives in a liberal environment. You will find exceptions, but the general rule is that conservatives need not apply.

At the major newspapers and television stations, conservatives need not apply. The television stations are finding that they need some conservative hosts, so will hire some selected conservatives. But, the general rule is that they only hire liberals. As a result, you get this liberal bias. The TV stations and newspapers cannot see the liberal bias because all the people they hang around with are liberals. Since all their liberal friends hold exactly the same opinions that they do, they see absolutely no problem with reporting news with a liberal slant. They just figure that the liberal position is the normal position for everyone in the US. When they are confronted with the liberal bias claim, they are dumfounded. They cannot possibly have a liberal bias in their news reporting. Yet, you see it time and again. In the interview with the co-chair of the Miss USA Pageant, the reporter just took what the co-chair said with no questions being raised in her mind. If she had no bias, she could have asked the co-chair to give an example of how Miss California could have answered the question more compassionately. That would have put the co-chair on the spot to put up or shut up. If she could not give an example, then she would have been exposed as a fascist. If she could give an example, then she would have vindicated Miss California. Also, the reporter could have asked the co-chair what the difference was between the answer Miss California gave and the answer Barack Obama gave during the campaign. He said that he believed that marriage was between a man and a woman. He did not even acknowledge that gays had any right to marriage. Miss California did make that acknowledgement. That also would have put the co-chair on the spot.

Liberals are dominating the American scene more and more throughout my lifetime. As a result, conservative ideas are disparaged more and more. About the only bastion of conservative thought is talk radio and part of the internet. Congress is getting ready to fix that problem as soon as they can think of a way around the Republicans. Then, they will shut down talk radio and all conservative thought on the internet. We have to hope that the Republicans, as weak as they are, can hold on until the elections in 2010. Then, we have a chance to fix part of the problem we created in 2008.