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“Litigo”: definitely not Michael Moore’s next documentary [Placebo Journal via KevinMD] More on that “staunch Republican” trial lawyer quoted by a Chicago Sun-Times reporter [Taranto, Malkin; earlier] Columbia lawprof Michael Dorf is very dismissi…

My guess: This reporter would have cited an actual Republican who has abandoned President Bush if they felt or realized any existed. The MSM pays no attention to Republicans and knows nothing about them. They actually do not realize there’s been a backlash against Bush due to his lunatic immigration stance. They assume — because it echoes their own bias — that Pubbies are turning against the war and are, like Lefties, leaving W in droves over that. To realize the truth they’d have to actually speak to Republicans, and no MSM reporters I know ever do that. They don’t feel they have to; they *know* what “those Republicans” are like, so don’t need to check. And they get it all wrong.

Second, never underestimate the laziness factor — both intellectual laziness and physical laziness. Some journalists are nice people but very few are paragons of virtue in the sense most here understand. They pride themselves on being very skeptical, but don’t realize — at all — that they are infinitely skeptical of Republicans, big business and the military but not remotely so about Dems, NGO’s, and peace activists. This guy’s comments so easily fit the reporter’s bigoted views it did not occur to her to be skeptical. That did not need reporting. It was *obvious* to her this man had seen the light, and why.

Meanwhile, the insistence that there is no bias — in spite of the 9:1 donation ratio mentioned above — is made earnestly. MSM reporters do consider themselves eminently and specially qualified to render stories free of bias, in spite of the kinds of vast gaps in perspective I’ve mentioned earlier. MSM reporters are not self-reflective. They look outward at the world, not inward. And they see in the world around them a reflection of what is in them (leftist ideas). They’re not capable of fairly assessing how they think.

I’ve also come to the conclusion, after eight years of observing this up close, that the condition is absolutely incurable. It is impervious to reasoned contradiction. When the facts of history prove the theories wrong, the theories remain unscathed, and MSM sees literally no contradiction. It is a form of almost genetic blindess, or of a personality disorder. Narcissistic, perhaps. But as intelligent as these people can often be, baseline reasoning is not part of their intellectual world. As Rousseau, I believe, said, “you can’t reason someone of a position he hasn’t reasoned himself into.”

This reporter, amazing as it seems to humans with a normal perspective, truly feels cornered and affronted by all those emails. I’ve listened in on too many MSM’ers fielding calls from readers, only to hang up and deride them. Your criticisms do not matter to them at all. The points do not sink in.

All just my observations, but in my experience, true. And a fascinating thing to behold.

Looks like they’re just making things up again…then again isn’t it okay to do whatever it takes as a journalist ……

Some things worth knowing about that I didn’t devote separate posts to: …

Liberal – a person who is incredibly naive or stuck on stupid

And anyone to the Right of them is, of course, a Nazi.

You must’ve missed the memo, but the current term is “neocon”. Nazi was retired as the generic smear on non-liberals after too many citations for violation of Godwin’s Law. It’s used to mean the same thing; it’s purely a semantics change. Be sure to update your VRWC decoder ring’s firmware to recognize this difference.