... (before Sargent's post above), Patrik Jonsson of the Christian Science Monitor offered "American Renaissance: Was Jared Lee Loughner tied to anti-immigrant group?" (link). While it includes AmRen's denial and a "hate" monitor questioning whether there could be a link, the article also smears by asking the titular question and not, for instance, by questioning the DHS over what they were thinking...
... him on being added to it.)
* Patrik Jonsson of the Christian Science Monitor offers "Grisly hanging of Census worker: an antigovernment act? /FBI is investigating worker's death in Kentucky. Is crime-scene reference to 'fed' a clue or a feint?" (csmonitor.com/2009/0924/p02s25-usgn.html). It's more balanced than would be expected from the source; it only deserves to be in this list to a small...
Now, here's a tough one. Who do I trust less: Nate Silver, or Pajamas Media and Glenn Reynolds?
Silver says that a bit more than 300,000 turned out for all the tea parties (link). And, he does that by linking almost 400 events in cities across the nation to local reports with their estimates of the turnout.
On the other hand, pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/76884 links to pajamasmedia.com/blog/pjtvs...
... white backlash festers in US" by Patrik Jonsson of The Christian Science Monitor (link). It's basically the same article as Washington's, right down to relying on Potok of the SPLC.
11/23/08 UPDATE 2: The trend continues, as Howard Witt of the Los Angeles Times offers the same article as those above: "White extremists lash out over election of first black president", link. It also quotes Potok,...
Patrik Jonsson of the Christian Science Monitor offers "Crackdown on immigrants empties a town and hardens views", which is so highly similar to the story discussed in "Russ Bynum/AP promotes illegal immigration (Stillmore, Georgia)" that I barely need to add anything more: almost everything said about that slab of pro-illegal immigration propaganda applies to the current slab.
There are a few...