Time to look in the mirror?

As I believe I have mentioned on this blog, I listen to and watch wayyyy too many news and political shows from all sides of the political spectrum. I am constantly amazed at how it is those on the left who sincerely ask me how I can possibly listen to the shows which are on the conservative side, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, etc. They tell me these commentators just preach hate and they never listen to them or watch their shows. I usually waste my time telling them that I don't think you can really know what the person says if you never listen to them. The most recent person told me they know because Keith Olbermann plays clips from their shows.
However, this post is about how the same side which tells me what I should never watch or listen to is also the side which would tell you they are the most tolerant and want diversity. Unfathomable how they can call this logic. And this same side, the left, or liberals, have told me for years how they are for womens' rights, for women being able to do anything a man can do....unless they are a conservative, of course. I have seen at least a dozen long and short interviews with Sarah Palin and, though you might not agree with her political opinions, she is not a stupid woman. Yet she has been belittled and slandered for the past year by those who are so tolerant, so supportive of women.
The onslaught of reporters and comedians trying to find anything they can use to ridicule Palin before the election and since has been disgusting. The left has trashed her daughters, something which I've never heard conservatives do. I've even heard the crude remarks about her daughters defended, since Palin is "using them for political publicity". How would these same people react if conservatives had been so vulgar about Chelsea Clinton, or if they choose to speak so crassly about Obama's daughters.
What I have learned about the left in the past 10-20 years is that, if you disagree with them politically, it is worse for you if you are a woman or a minority, for you must be some kind of traitor or idiot and you are definitely a threat, since people might realize that not all women or minorities have to agree on everything; they can think for themselves. Now it seems it's also bad news to be a child of a woman or minority who dares to disagree with the correct political dogma.