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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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By Matthew Yglesias
May 16 2007, 2:03 PM ET Comment

Jonah Goldberg deploys the reality-proof shield known as media bias:

The liberal media loves — loves! — casting evangelicals as sexually hung up prudes. It should not detract from the basic unfairness of this bias to also concede that some evangelical leaders have supplied their enemies with ample ammo in this regard.


Sorry, no. The media, famously, doesn't have a really solid grasp on the nuances of Christian theology and arguably errs by tending to use the term "Evangelical" as synonymous with "sexually hung-up Protestant prude" rather than offer a more doctrinally correct interpretation, but it's simply true that the evangelical Christians who want gays back in the closet, who have their daughters sign virginity pledges, who push abstinence only sex education, etc., etc., etc. are sexually hung-up prudes. It's not an "unfair bias" that Christian Right leaders fuel with "ammunition" -- the essence of the Christian Right political program is increased government repression of human sexuality.

This would be like Goldberg saying that the media has this weird habit of portraying environmental groups as obsessed with their loathing of pollution.

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