I find it very interesting how the conservative versus liberal dynamic has changed over the last year or so. Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit and Blogfather, would have been called a centrist before the war in Iraq. He has no problems with gay marriage, he's pro-choice, and he appears to think that much of the religious right is just as whacko as I think they are. But he supports the war, and now, whenever he is referenced in the media, he is a "conservative blogger." That's a ridiculous notion, you can't just call someone conservative simply because they support an end to the tyranny of Saddam, but to much of the media if you support the war then you must be all about the Republicans. It's simply not true, and such attitudes seem to belie the media's supposedly nuanced, non-black and white, outlook on the world. It's become us or them, the same sort of thinking they have previously derided the right for in its good versus evil type thinking.
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