Yabbut -- it's not just that liberals don't pay attention. It's that many of the liberals in the media are so damned condescending, while at the same time using the barking moonbats as exemplars of the other side, with the result that folks on the other side but not all the way out in barking moonbat territory get their backs up.
I once spent some time in North Carolina where, as bad luck for me would have it, the only station that came in well was the local public radio station. The notion that conservatives constitute a mass of the great unwashed was palpable in every news report, every commentary, every discussion. At the same time, it was painfully obvious that all these reporters and commentators considered themselves 120% unbiased.
On my own LiveJournal I posted links to a survey, recently commissioned by Newsweek and BeliefNet, that indicates that the so-called "religious right" is a lot more laissez-faire and tolerant than one would know from the regular reporting in the press. Also, recent coverage of our barking moonbat Pat Robertson has dutifully, although not loudly, chronicled the decline of his influence over the past decade.
(I personally think Robertson should be arrested for making terroristic threats.)
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I once spent some time in North Carolina where, as bad luck for me would have it, the only station that came in well was the local public radio station. The notion that conservatives constitute a mass of the great unwashed was palpable in every news report, every commentary, every discussion. At the same time, it was painfully obvious that all these reporters and commentators considered themselves 120% unbiased.
On my own LiveJournal I posted links to a survey, recently commissioned by Newsweek and BeliefNet, that indicates that the so-called "religious right" is a lot more laissez-faire and tolerant than one would know from the regular reporting in the press. Also, recent coverage of our barking moonbat Pat Robertson has dutifully, although not loudly, chronicled the decline of his influence over the past decade.
(I personally think Robertson should be arrested for making terroristic threats.)