the reach of their voices did provoke a backlash. >> sean: that backlash lead to a simplistic portrayal of conservatives in the media. many depicted as evil. >> the reagan years depressed me because of the callousness and greed and hard-hearted attitude. >> sean: to dick cheney. >> he has become a dark figure. >> sean: and force karl rove. >> he probably set -- [ inaudible ] >> they would not allow that conservatives might be wrong but are driven by noble intensions they won't even allow that. conservatives have to be described as being wrong andkglñ evil at the same time. >> there is a self-righteous streak that ruins through a great deal of liberal and progressive policy making through the 60s and 70s in which they were convinced that they had the solutions to problems. in which case, if you disagreed, you probably didn't