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Liberals love giving themselves awards. The empty skulls in Hollywood gather each year to exchange Oscars at the Academy Awards and pontificate about how great they are compared with those hicks in “Jesus Land.” Tom Brokaw and Bill Moyers are heralded as the greatest contributors to the free press in world history the moment either breathes the word “retirement.” Jimmy Carter gets the Nobel Peace Prize for spending his term twiddling his thumbs in the Oval Office rather than really governing the country. Maureen Dowd is awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her selfless efforts to undermine Democracy around the world....

Looks like the publish date is next week, but what the heck. From Page 2 of the article Some of those right-wing evangelicals apparently care whether or not we have a good opinion of them. (If they didn't, the resentment they display toward the "liberal media" would make no sense.) Whereas I know no one among the liberal media elite or among liberal academics who cares very much that many right-wing evangelicals have contempt for us. We care how they vote--for instrumental reasons; we may even care that they are mistaken, for their sakes; but we don't feel diminished by...

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