I would be more interested in critiques of the actual study – which is there for anybody to see – than poisoning the well attacks.

“No matter the results, we feared our findings would’ve been suspect if we’d received support from any group that could be perceived as right- or left-leaning, so we consciously decided to fund this project only with our own salaries and research funds that our own universities provided,” Groseclose said.

BUt according to “left wing smear site” Media Matters, you can definitely see where their roots are at. See below:

“None of the outlets that reported on the study mentioned that the authors have previously received funding from the three premier conservative think tanks in the United States: the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), The Heritage Foundation, and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Groseclose was a Hoover Institution 2000-2001 national fellow; Milyo, according to his CV (pdf), received a $40,500 grant from AEI; and, according to The Philanthropy Roundtable, Groseclose and Milyo were named by Heritage as Salvatori fellows in 1997.”

Good thing for the fair and balanced channel though, without them, we’d have almost nothing (except for Radio, but who listens to the radio anymore).

The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left.

Chuckle, chuckle. You should post these satire pieces more often.