The Washington Post story on Alito today once again effectively labels both liberal and conservative groups, although “liberal” is a pretty mild label for MoveOn.Org. It’s especially odd when they start calling OTHER people extreme: “Meanwhile, the liberal group MoveOn.org said it plans to begin airing television ads Monday portraying Alito as an extremist trying to pass himself off as a moderate.”
Reporters ought to pay special attention to the pot-calling-the-kettle-black overtones of this. NARAL and Planned Parenthood have used the “E word” for decades now, as they didn’t even want to allow planned abortions that were mistakenly born alive to survive.