USA Today proves liberals are huge hypocrites while showcasing their own bias

USA Today ^ | February 20, 2002 | Jill Lawrence

[ModernDayCato]

In the third installment of USA Today's nauseating Special Report: One nation, divided, the article and features are at best social commentary masquerading as news, and at worst more biased liberal drivel.

Mike Walton, president of the Harpeth River Watershed Association, typifies the trend. He is concerned about pollution and has moved twice in five years to escape encroaching subdivisions. But he voted in 2000 for businessman Bush, not environmentalist Al Gore.

[ModernDayCato]

bumpity bump bump

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Most Montclair voters are liberal in the classic sense of the word

So, do you think this statement is sheer ignorance or purposefully revisionist?

[xsmommy]

isn't this near you?

[ModernDayCato]

Jeez...I don't know. I think we are liberals in the classical sense of the word.

[Redbob]

Franklin, Tennessee is "conservative"?
In some alternate reality, perhaps!
Franklin is where the Nashville music industry liberals live.

[hobbes1]

Yes, it's the town next to mine.....It's AWFUL....

One of the First things I taught Wolf, for when we were out in public, was
Me: "Wolf where do all the liberals Live ?"
He: "Montclair"....

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[ModernDayCato]

LOL! I don't know, though...in reading the article, I'd live there:

Personal responsibility, family values, tightfisted government and an aversion to taxes drive politics here. The majority view, county GOP Chairman Hugh DuPree says, is that we'll spend our own money, thanks, and "why do we need more government?"

Democrats and independents dominated the area 25 years ago. Party-switchers and an influx of young Republican families have turned it two-thirds GOP. Democrats hold no county offices and have no permanent headquarters.

[ModernDayCato]

Forgot one thing about the area:

Franklin's tax base is growing so fast that taxes have been cut five times since 1989.

Hmmm...wonder what one can attribute that to?[/sarcasm]

[ThinkDifferent]

Yes, but we understand what words mean, unlike this author.

Most in town weren't wild about Bush's tax cut. They wanted to pay down the national debt and underwrite social programs.

I would be fascinated to see the percentage of those people who didn't cash their rebate checks.

[KC_Conspirator]

I heard about this article on Micheal Savage. Apparently USA Today compares the town in NJ and the town in TN and (wink, wink, nod, nod), "lets the reader decide" that the church going, gun owning, middle class workers from TN are the heart of the problem, not the hateful, radical leftists from Montclair.

[ModernDayCato]

There's a real problem with that, though. DESPITE the so obvious bias in this article, about 50% of the people who read it are going to side with the people from Franklin. And if you really read between the lines you can see that Conservative values are where it's really at -- Franklin is booming, and Montclair is starting to feel the pinch of it's own liberalism in the form of "a tremendous tax burden."

I am watching with absolute glee as they realize that actions have consequences. They've been able to bus other people's kids to crappy schools, raise other people's taxes, and seize other people's property, all the while maintaining the arrogant and sanctimonious rhetoric that they are so famous for (anyone who heard Congressman Shays '[my Congresscritter] on Hannity yesterday knows what I mean). Now their fan is getting hit with their sh-t, and I love it.

[ModernDayCato]

bump

[Jay W]

Even with the evident liberal bias in USA Today -- a bias it has had from its inception in the early 1980s -- this series is still valuable inasmuch as it highlights the two nations, red and blue, that do exist in America now.