re: #279 suchislife

So a bias resulting from justified outrage is not a bias? I would agree that it is understandable, and forgivable, but is it not still bias?
As Jon Stewart said (I paraphrase), Beck’s 9/12 project is trying to get us back to a time when we were outraged and scared. Obama’s volonteer project was an attempt to recapture the good that came of this.

Bias carries with it the implication of knowing distortion of underlying reality in support of one or another version of things.

The 9/12 thing is a way for Beck et al to keep themselves front and center (so to speak) and to keep selling advertising time for their sponsors.

We should remain outraged and “scared” as you put it, of terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11. The “good” that came from it is not to be discarded, either, but the take-away lesson from the attacks is not that we ought to spend more time in soup kitchens.