As anyone who has read my posts knows, I am perfectly aware that there is no "liberal conspiracy" in the media. It's more like Lileks says: most of the media is comprised of liberals, for whatever reason, and they see things through that prism. If you had gone down South in 1940, you would have seen a pervasive negative attitude toward blacks. This was not the result of a conspiracy, or some Grand Dragon arranging for everyone to think that way. It was the result of the racist culture that southern whites had been steeped in for generations. Like liberals in the media, they normally didn't have a conscious awareness of their biases any more than a fish knows it's wet.
Dislodging ideas from people's heads that "everybody knows" is a hell of a lot harder than breaking up an actual conspiracy would be.
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- Yes, Virginia. The weekend protests were organized by America-haters and communists.
- Tom, all you will get is more dodging from the left on this.
- Ah, good old Lileks.
- (Good Job Tom!*) Communists are heading out as human shields
- If I had been at the rally
- "America haters?"
- Mindless jingoism at it's very worst.