So now, fiscal responsibility is "radical."

Leave it to California.


Governor Schwarzenegger has the wherewithall to actually cut government spending in California to try to shore up a budget defecit. And when he does so, he is considered "radical." The very same article praises the governor because of his "tough stance on climate change and a recent willingness to engage with Democratic rivals in the California state legislature." It even says that those two factors have make him popular "across the political spectrum."

It's not new news that there is media bias, and that it slants to the left. Even academics have had to admit it. In the middle of Primary season, even reporters assigned to specific candidates have been shown to be consistently biased.

I've said it before, but I bears repeating here. We need to be careful, as conservatives, about how we talk about media bias. The fact of the matter is that there is no grand conspiracy aimed at destroying the right. Media bias comes from the fact that, first of all, it is impossible for human beings to transcend their own presuppositions, and they describe their world through that lens. Second, it is liberals in the media that have power. When a liberal editor looks for a reporter, he may not be consciously looking for a liberal reporter; however, he is more likely to be impressed with a sample article about the dangers of global warming than he is about the dangers of tax increases.