Thursday, March 24, 2016

Bias in Motion

Kudos to the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto for catching this opening paragraph from a CNN article (red bold added by me):

The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has seen its fair share of challenges from likely suspects such as GOP political opponents, conservative think tanks and closely held for-profit businesses like Hobby Lobby. On Wednesday, however, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the law from unlikely quarters: an order of nuns called the Little Sisters of the Poor.

"Likely suspects"? There is a damning phrase if ever I heard one. You can almost hear the writer thinking, "How dare those Republicans, conservatives, and for-profit businesses try and fight the pure and holy Affordable Care Act?! This is an outrage! And now those evil nuns are getting into the act too? OUTRAGE!"

The writer, Ariane de Vogue, needs to be informed that the ACA also protects the health insurance industry, which is also "for-profit". But like most Leftists, she will protect her political allies (i.e. Democrats) at the cost of her own beliefs.

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