So, Huckabee is praised by Broder for being more liberal than the other candidates? Are the beltway types like Broder really so utterly out of touch that they think that their calling attention to and praising of supposedly conservative candidates liberal stances on so many issues is somehow going to help those supposed conservatives get elected? And as for Huckabee being a "surprise discovery", who is surprised that the Leftist MSM is actively promoting a candidate who espouses Leftist orthodoxy under the guise of religious beliefs? Sheeesh.
This is the first election where I think a very large number of people - Mostly because of the blogosphere - Are keenly aware of the inner workings of the political/media establishment, and that means the MSM no longer has a free hand to manipulate, manicure, obfuscate and lie without being called on it by someone. There is no longer any presumption of respectability or honesty on the part of these so-called "journalists" by a huge number of people, and those activists-come-journalists simply haven't figured out a way to regain their utterly undeserved positions of privilege. Nor should they. Irrelevance and oblivion are downright tasty.
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