The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to an American President should be a time of great pride and celebration for all citizens of the United States.

The vitriolic and poisonous response from many conservative media personalities (and their followers) is just another sign of the sad state of partisanship that exists in our Country.

Gone are conservative calls for 'patriotism' and 'Country first.'  In its place is a phony patriotism - a patriotism that exists only for conservative Presidents.

In an appalling example of this new ultra-partisan rancor, Rush Limbaugh actually said that he agrees with the Taliban and Iran.  He laughed at the 'irony' of this.

The truth is that men such as Limbaugh and Hannity have become indistinguishable from America's enemies in their eagerness to attack and demean our freely elected leader.

These are men who once equated questioning the President in time of war to being a traitor.  The hypocrisy is either lost or very deftly hidden by these men.

These same folks recently displayed unequivocal joy at America's loss of the 2016 Olympic games.  Their myopic partisanship actually places the United States interests second to that of Republican party (if not third, behind their own careers).

It is one thing to campaign and vote for the opposition party - it is something else again to root against the interests of the United States as they now do.

What might be next?  Will Rush Limbaugh play the fiddle as nuclear missiles strike Israel?  Will Sean Hannity's eyes sparkle with glee at burgeoning unemployment lines?

It is time for some so-called patriots to do a little old fashioned soul searching.