11 out of 13 can't be right

I'm really loving my cyberalerts from the Media Research Center (see below), they make life so much easier. In today's alert, we see that Nightline is "liberal" because, in a Nightline Town Meeting, good common folks, real salt of the earth types, actually had the audacity to question the administration's rush to war. Gasp! Let's let MRC 'splain it to you:

ABC's Nightline Town Meeting on Tuesday night put the burden on those in favor of a war on Iraq, a tilt evident in the title of the 90-minute special, “War in Iraq: Why Now?” While Ted Koppel presented a balanced panel of three experts for and three against a war, an amazing 11 of 13 questions posed from the audience, at St. Johns Episcopal Church within sight of the White House, expressed hostility for President Bush's policy or outright disdain for the U.S.

Remember: asking "War in Iraq: Why Now?” is putting a "burden" on the administration, and we wouldn't want to burden them with explaining why they want to blow $100+ billion, kill ten's of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and put America's fighting forces in harm's way just so we can get at that guy who tried to kill the President's dad. That would require some heavy lifting from a bunch of white collar criminals and these homies don't play that. And speaking of 'burdens" it looks like the MRC doesn't want to have to explain why 11 out of 13 people "expressed hostility for President Bush's policy or outright disdain for the U.S". The MRC says:

But the really biased element to the show was all the hostile questions from the left. The audience for these Nightline Town Meetings is carefully selected by ABC producers who then decide who can pose a question, so the questioners normally are pretty balanced. But not on Tuesday night, a slant which really makes ABC look pretty irresponsible given the very small audience they were able to fit into the church.

Proof of an ABC conspiracy? The fact that 11 out of the 13 questioned the war is all the proof that MRC needs, although I found it interesting that they claim that "the really biased element to the show was all the hostile questions from the left". Does this mean that no one from the right is opposed to the war? Are they really in such tight lockstep over there? Didn't they all get the Rove-a-gram?

But my favorite part was Ted Koppel's little joke that probably really steamed Bozell's clams:

Koppel set the tone for the evening by opening the March 4 live broadcast (EST/CST feed) with this supposed joke which undermined the moral superiority of the U.S. position: “There's a sardonic two-liner making the rounds in Washington these days: 'How do we know that Saddam Hussein has biological and chemical weapons? We have the receipts.' Nasty, but there's an element of truth to it.”