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Vandehei Anxiety

My examples of bias from Saturday’s Post — especially the front-pager on division over what proponents call “gay marriage” — are somewhat matched by a Thursday front-pager, which at least claims in a headline on the continuation on p. 5 that “Abortion, Gay Rights Are Divisive for Democrats.”

I’m a bit befuddled by the Democratic candidates’ self-descriptions, especially Wesley Clark, “a Catholic who frequently attends Presbyterian services.” (At my church, we’d call that kind of Catholic a “Presbyterian.”) It’s also odd to see reporter Jim VandeHei suggest that conservative white evangelicals are defined as those who “see abortion and homosexuality as going against the Bible.” (As opposed to those passages where the Bible endorses them?) But at least the Post has instructed its readers that it’s not all roses for the Democrats among religious voters.

Tim GrahamTim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center, where he began in 1989, and has served there with the exception of 2001 and 2002, when served ...
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