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From the San Francisco Chronicle's article on the MoveOn ad contest, this line stood out:

"And they (the ads) hew closely to the basic liberal claims that Bush policies have produced job losses, skyrocketing federal deficits and tax cuts for the wealthy."

Now it seems to me that these are empirical facts, that Bush policies have produced job losses, skyrocketing federal deficits and tax cuts for the wealthy. They are not just "liberal claims." Is there any evidence that this is not true? What, aside from fear of being tagged as part of the "so-called liberal media" could compel a writer, in this case Mark Simon, to abandon reason to include a qualifier like that in his story. As the story goes, if a Democrat observed the sky is blue, it would be reported that he had said the sky was blue, but that some believe otherwise.

And so the discourse of this fine nation continues to erode.