There has to be a conspiracy. A political conspiracy. A vast, biased, media conspiracy. I mean, what other possible explanation could there be. Go to The Cavalier Daily Web site and search "March AND 2010 AND 'Bob MCDonnell'" and four pages - four pages! - of hits pop up. Clearly, The Cavalier Daily is biased toward conservative Republican politicians. Or maybe McDonnell pops up so often because he's the governor of Virginia and The Cavalier Daily is based at the University of Virginia. It's a possibility.
When The Cavalier Daily ran a front page story about someone cutting a propane line at Bo Perriello's house, some people called it a clear example of typical left-wing media bias. Bo Perriello is Rep. Tom Perriello's brother. Two Tea Party activists had published what they apparently thought was the congressman's address and encouraged people to go by and let Perriello know how they felt about the new health care reform law. When someone pointed out the address was really the congressman's brother's, one of the Tea Partiers said something like, "Oh well. Collateral damage." According to some reports, even after Congressman Perriello asked the Tea Party Members to take down the address and gave them his address so they could get it right; they left the wrong address up.
Some folks thought it was wrong to blame the incident on conservative activists. And some of those folks accused The Cavalier Daily of blowing the gas line cutting out of proportion while ignoring the brick thrown into the local Albemarle County GOP office and the bullet shot through Republican Congressman Eric Cantor's office window.
There are a few things wrong with that, it seems to me. First, Cantor doesn't represent Charlottesville. Perriello does. And there weren't any bricks thrown through Cantor's window. A bullet did hit the window, but police decided
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