It's not bias. It's intelligence.

I had to move the car this morning in order to put the trash out. The consequence of our new trash system, where huge red trucks come with their robotic arms to pick up our one allowed trash barrel, dump it out, and set it down neatly again by the side of the road. Problem is that with the new robot approved trash barrel, I can't get the trash out of the garage without moving the car.

In the roughly ten seconds it took to move the car out, I heard one tiny little snippet of talk radio. Some, from what I've seen typical, caller was on the line. "Hello. Hello. Is this the host?" "Ya. I'm me you're you and you're on the air. What's on your mind?" "Well. I just wanted to say that I agree with you that the media is heavily biased towards the democrats."

Ding. Right there. I knew what I was going to write about today, this myth that the media is biased towards a political party. Real media, by which I exclude Faux News and 99% of talk radio, is biased not toward a political ideology, but towards sanity. That is not to say they get it right. Heaven knows they are largely market driven cowards, but I think that one of the characteristics of a true journalist is that you have to have somewhat above average intelligence and be intellectually curious.

That is not to say that the remaining die-hard Bush defenders are morons. That would be cruel. Some are unintelligent, to be sure. Many are anti-intellectual. You see them tearing down some of the best candidates as "effete intellectual snobs." Some are uninformed. Some are extremely gullible. Some suffer from an acute psychological inability to admit they are wrong. Many have been playing the republican role so long that they don't know how to do anything else. Some of those in the public eye are just playing a role period, cashing in on the rest to make a buck. The remainder, and I choose to believe it's actually a small number, are just plain evil.