I'm all for freedom of speech.
But freedom of speech means you can't just scream "FIRE" every five seconds in a crowded room. Nor can you smear people. Majority popularity does not make this okay. They're essentially lying about their opponents (how can you not be the mainstream media, Fox, when you are the most watched News network?) in hopes of garnering more money.
And it shows, too.
My family is ultra-conservative. They watch Fox News every day. They watch the non-news sections and take it just as literally as they take the news sections. My mom is the worst offender: she watches nothing but Fox news from 7-11 AM each morning, and then watches them from 2-10 PM.
As it is, she views my hobby (and future career) as a gamer (and game artist) to be immature and immoral, truly believing games like GTA cause murder and all that other golden shit. She believes atheists and Muslims are trying to destroy Christianity in America by demanding Christmas trees be taken down in public places. She believes liberals are trying to destroy the country. She believes George W. Bush was the best president (seriously) and did nothing wrong, and believes Obama is a terrorist and the worst president ever.
And that's just naming a few. Arguing with her doesn't work because if I show her facts that aren't from Fox, she calls it the liberal bias.
So yes, yes they need to die. And I don't care how it is done.
EDIT: Oh yeah. She thinks the liberal mainstream media is smearing Palin, and that Palin would make a great president because "she's a good thinker".