Is the media trying to provoke a civil war?

[mick t]

Have you ever noticed that government protesters are always labeled by the media as extremists? Bush protesters were left-wing extremists, Obama protesters are right-wing extremists. If you're against the government in any way, you must be an extremist. One of the defining characteristics of America is that we have very few extremists compared to other countries, yet now the media is labeling all opposition to the government as right wing extremism, or racism. Either they're focusing on very small groups of real extremists, or they're lying. I tend to believe the latter. I sincerely believe Americans on both sides of any argument are still good people, they just disagree. We rant and rave, and at the end of the day we go home peacefully to our homes to be with our families. Is the media purposely trying to rile people up enough to take up arms. It angers me that I'm being called a racist when I disagree with the president. The media called me unpatriotic when I disagreed with Bush. I'm tempted to become an extremist, though I don't know if I'm a left-wing or right wing extremist, I just know I disagree with what the government's been doing during my lifetime.