{"id":3219,"date":"2011-08-01T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2011-08-01T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:48:17","slug":"what_is_your_political_quotien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"What Is Your Political Quotient ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_59?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=left+turn+how+liberal+media+bias+distorts+the+american+mind&amp;sprefix=left+turn+how+liberal+media+bias+distorts+the+american+mind\">Left Turn<\/a>&nbsp;details how the liberal leaning of the mainstream media influences the politics of Americans.&nbsp; The book allows people to calculate their Political Quotient (PQ) to see where they fall in the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/politics\/2011\/July\/Liberal-Media-Taking-America-on-a-Left-Turn\/\">CBN News<\/a> interviewed UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose, the author of the book, and discussed what&nbsp;Mr. Groseclose discovered in his research.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Some of the things Mr. Groseclose discovered:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>&#8211; All mainstream news outlets in the United States have a liberal bias.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><strong>&#8211; The Drudge Report is the most fair, balanced and centrist news outlet in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><strong>&#8211; Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; which is usually characterized as conservative, is not biased as far right as typical mainstream outlets are biased to the left.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article at CBN includes a quiz you can take to determine your PQ.&nbsp; The higher the number, the more liberal.&nbsp; I got a 20!&nbsp; Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book called Left Turn&nbsp;details how the liberal leaning of the mainstream media influences the politics of Americans.&nbsp; The book allows people to calculate their Political Quotient (PQ) to see where they fall in the political spectrum. Today, CBN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}