Jon Stewart shows journalists how to interview a social conservative

Not all social positions are equally defensible.   Thus, a good journalist will call out injustice and bigotry, rather than simply nodding his or her head out of "respect" for all opinions that an interviewee cares to serve up.   That's the thought I was thinking as I watched Jon Stewart conducting…

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Meet Mike Huckabee

The NYT has written a long piece of Mike Huckabee. Who is he?  Huckabee is an admirer of the late Jerry Falwell (whose son, Jerry Jr., recently endorsed his candidacy) and subscribes wholeheartedly to the principles of the Moral Majority. He also affirms the Baptist Faith and Message statement: ‘‘The…

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