Brutus, we’re not asking you to accept a story told by a biased source. We’re asking you to accept the cited facts and quotations of a biased source.
For instance, if you were to give a link to a National Review story as a cite, eyebrows will raise, because they’re doing their own reporting, and they may very well report it in a biased way (don’t know, haven’t really read them much). However, if you were to give a link to FAIR as a cite, we would be obliged to either check their cites for the case they’re making, or shut up. Unless we want to a) try to prove that their citation doesn’t say what they think it says, b) try to prove that the source for the citation is biased/lying, or c) try to prove that no such citation exists.
Anything less than that is an intellectually dishonest attempt to undermine an argument without having to, oh, I don’t know, put forth some fucking EFFORT?!
(Did you know that when I couldn’t find the source article I was looking for, I was actually gonna download and format the very database program that the Media Consortium used, so I could tally the statewide recount myself? Good thing Desmo showed up, cuz I could not figure out how to make that program work.)
Honestly, I think that, in terms of citations and such, the whole “I won’t count that because it’s biased” argument rings a bit hollow. For the most part, whoever they are and however biased they might be in what they report, they’re probably not blatantly misrepresenting the facts. The bias and misinformation tends to come more in the form of reporting some facts and not others, a kind of bias which is almost impossible to prove without them coming right out and saying “I’m biased.” But, like Bill O’Reilly, they don’t say that, if they mention bias at all. Instead they say “I’m right. You’re biased.”
[ASIDE]Dio Mio, I think I might have a problem. I just… can’t… stop![ASIDE]