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To: ThirdEye who wrote (64040)	1/2/2003 12:10:36 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

OT: This is admittedly a side issue to this thread The way we normally handle it is to not discuss it as a separate issue, as we are doing here. JohnM is the first one to question sources when responding to an article, so it is fair game when discussing the post of an article. Other than that, it is best to leave it alone.

To: ThirdEye who wrote (64040)	1/2/2003 11:35:19 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What I object to is what appears to be a double standard among the New Right who, on one hand have been engaging in deliberate rhetorical efforts to marginalize, dismiss and otherwise undermine the credibility of anyone to their left by saying, among other things, that all the major media are biased while on the other hand screaming bloody murder when someone says out loud that Fox is, shall we say, somewhat less than balanced. I think this is a case where "rhetorical efforts to marginalize" may be in the eye of the beholder. Though I don't dismiss the possibility, on the whole I think the liberal bias of the media is an extremely sincere article of belief among the New Right. Of course, claiming that Fox isn't biased is ridiculous (tho it always comes easier when their bias is your bias). I prefer Andrew Sullivan's position, which is: of course Fox is biased. Of course the NY Times is biased. Can we all just admit our biases here?