PBS NewsHour Slants Story on GOP, 'Too Conservative and Unwilling to Listen'

The defection of Arlen Specter is still drawing stories bashing the Republican Party as too conservative. On Thursday night's NewsHour on PBS, correspondent Kwame Holman announced "Specter's departure from the GOP has reignited the debate over whether the Republican Party has lost ground with the public because it has become too ideologically conservative and unwilling to listen to moderates in its ranks."

The soundbite count was very slanted, with nine snippets of leftists decrying the party's tilt (counting one from the departing Specter, since it's his rationale for party-switching) to just two clips from conservative Sen. Jim DeMint... [snip]

Speaking of a "losing strategy," PBS's Holman never discussed how the number of moderate Republicans in Congress diminished -- they were mostly defeated by Democrats in general elections, not by conservatives in primary races.

If going toward the center is a winning strategy, doesn't the declining number of moderates offer a counterpoint worth reporting?

[Apparently not, just as we're to conveniently forget that the Republican party just ran its most 'moderate' candidate in history, a fellow by the name of McCain - and how'd that turn out?

I.e., the enemies of conservatism are working overtime to give them 'advice'? Sure. Sadly, many idiots in the GOP are actually listening to them. It's a formula for securing a permanent minority.]

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