[GOP_Lady]

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[CommieCutter]

Reportergate.

[TexasCajun]

How many times have we all looked at each other, wondering how did so many liberal pundits dream up the exact same "word of the day', all on the same day as if they uniquely came upon the descriptive.

...now we know!

[GOPJ]

My response has usually been to say, yes, there's liberal bias in the media, but there's no conspiracy. The liberal tilt is an accident of nature. The media disproportionately attracts people from a liberal arts background who tend, quite innocently, to be politically liberal.

What self serving crap. The reason there were so many black conservatives writing for newspapers a few years back was because once they hired a black person the "liberal" in the liberal couldn't fire the person BECAUSE they were black. When a black person was "outed" as a conservative, they were stuck with him. For a while it seems the only conservative journalists were black. I don't remember all the names - just how odd it was... Sowell comes to mind... but there were others... Maxwell when he wrote for the Gainsville Sun - conservative on race issues... The numbers were strange considering that blacks are liberal in the high ninety percentile - but in the eighties and nineties a high percentage of conservative newspaper writers were black.

Newspapers used to say the same about women writers - how women didn't write or didn't apply... and they said the same about blacks before the civil rights movement - and gays before Stonewall. Now they say conservatives don't go into the field. What crap. Don't they know their own history? Conservatives know they won't get a job. If there's one token conservative on staff that's a wonder - not a sign there will ever be two. So why go into the field?

[Freddd]

Classy response in this article.

[lentulusgracchus]

Fred's working to contain the damage to liberal cred.

[rosettasister]

Fred Barnes is a Teddy Bear!

BTW Fred Barnes is the reason I came up with Michael “I just make shit up” Moore.

Michael Moore and Me

From the May 31, 2004 issue: An encounter with the Cannes man.

BY Fred Barnes

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/127ujhuf.asp