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On the race issue, the liberal claim is that police pull over hispanic and black motorists 3 times more frequently than white ones. Well, tell me how a policeman can tell a hispanic white person from most any other white person while speeding by in a car on the highway? Heck, if I were busy checking radar, I am not sure I'd even know it was a black person. You would have to eliminate nightime hours and still, better than half the time wouldn't the cop be looking at the back of someone's head? Is he hair profiling? Sure, you can tell sometimes, but they do these studies on carefully selected stretches of highway where I think it would be difficult at best for a guy intent on pulling over only non-whites to actually do so effectively.

Then there is the issue of numbers. They will compare the numbers to the entire state population. How can you tell anything from that? Surely we do not expect all behavior stats to reflect the exact ratios in the population.

Am I missing something?

At a recent meeting of the Society of Professional Journalists, a panel of journalists defended the higher use of the word "conservative" to describe conservative think tanks. The panel claimed that conservative think tanks describe themselves as "conservative" or "free market," but liberal think tanks do not describe themselves as "liberal" or "socialist."

Actually they don't call left-wing think tanks "think tanks" as that sounds like a cabal of sinister plotters. They are called "child advocacy groups", or "enviromental watchdog organizations", or some other name that connotates selfless defenders of the public good.

Media Bias by the numbers

A simple survey of Google's search engine:

NEWS articles searched (this will include duplicate articles printed in different publications and includes international and historical uses of the word):

"Right Wing" 5,170 matches
"Left Wing" 3,760 matches

"Extreme Right Wing" 183 matches
"Extreme Left Wing" 13 matches

"Right Wing extremists" 323 matches
"Left Wing extremists" 4 matches

"conservative" matches 8,990; the term "conservative estimates" account for 121 matches
"liberal" 8,620 matches; the term "liberal estimates" did not appear at all

"conservatives" 4,770 matches
"liberals" 3,260 matches

"Republican" 8,720 matches
"Republicans" 10,500 matches
"Republican Party" 2,680 matches
"Democrat" 12,100 matches
"Democrats" 11,400 matches
"Democrat Party" 320 matches
"Democratic Party" 5,170 matches
"Progressives" 226 matches
"Socialist" 2,200 matches
"Socialists" 630 matches
"Socialist Party" 687 matches
"Communist" 5,950 matches
"Communists" 1,240 matches
"Communist Party" 2,200 matches
"Green Party" 692 matches (there is an nternational Green Party)
"Libertarian" 463 matches; with 73 matches for"Libertarian Party"

By the way, I did a News search of "Media Bias" and found 63 matches.

My two favorite examples so far: election 2002 ~> Americans debunked the left-wing talking points re. "illegitimate" Pres. Bush by electing Republicans across the nation. We took back the Senate and Jeb Bush made a monkey out of the DNC chairman and what do we get from the mainstream newsmedia? Two weeks of Nancy Pelosi!

Most clear example of left-wing bias, imho ~> our honorable military wins a decisive victory in Iraq - frees an oppressed nation from a sadistic monster, lessens the world's threat from terrorism - and instead of covering the daily good works and progress of our troops in Iraq, the press misrepresents the situation on the ground - hyping each casualty and giving the bad guys far more credit than they deserve, mocks the CIC for thanking the troops aboard the USS Lincoln - and, in a final "put some ice on it" to the troops - the press fawningly parades the CLINTONS ("I loathe the military") in front of the world.