Can we say, “Projection!”?
As always, when they claim we are doing something underhanded they are simply exposing themselves as practitioners of those tactics.
In the article Dionne writes:
But something is haywire in our media and our politics. Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian whose new book is "The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History," observed in an interview that there is a "hall of mirrors" effect created by the rise of "niche" opinion media. They magnify small movements into powerhouses while old-fashioned journalism, which is supposed to put such movements in perspective, reacts to the same niche incentives.
Seems to me, and to many others, that a reverse "hall of mirrors effect" is being practiced by big (liberal) media. They do not want people to understand how large this ground swell is. They have been biased all along, and are actually so warped that they think they are putting things into perspective when they alter the truth to shape opinion - just like Dionne is doing here.
Read the article - the numbers games he plays in an effort to marginalize this movement are absurd.