This will seem incredible to readers under the age of, say, 35, but there actually was a time when two of the most attractive things about conservatives were their sense of propriety and their belief in civil discourse. No need to tell you, but those days are gone, and now we’re used to conservative windbags bloviating at full volume 24/7. Consider me clueless, perhaps, but I honestly thought the right would probably wait a couple of days before slamming Ted Kennedy. Silly me.

Michelle Malkin has more HERE.

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If you’ve paid any attention to our coverage of nightly television ratings , you know that Fox News Channel is more than running the show, sometimes beating all of its competitors combined . But this cable news hegemony goes beyond ratings, as the top five ranked TV pundits on our Power Grid stand firmly on the right of the political spectrum, while the top four call Fox home. The fifth slot, meanwhile, is held by Pat Buchanan , another long-time fixture of the conservative movement currently at MSNBC.