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"Is Slow Growth Actually Good For The Economy?"  I guess that was an actual headline at NPR earlier today.  It was later changed to read "Is Moderate Growth Actually Good For The Economy?"  (The second headline doesn't even make sense.  NPR was obviously going for something completely counter-intuitive and still decided to stick with it no matter the context.)

Tim Groseclose at Ricochet has some thoughts on this:

The headline not only exposes  the Obama-water-carrying attitudes at NPR, it also exposes the fact that NPR is filled with what I call "insular progressives."  The latter are people with extremely liberal views, who have surrounded themselves with like-minded people.  As a consequence, they are apt to say things that moderates and conservatives find ridiculous.  But they never or rarely learn that because they have so little interaction with moderates and conservatives.  Probably most professors and most mainstream journalists, I believe, could reasonably be called "insular progressives."

This is getting so old by now but please indulge me:  Just think about the possibility of a headline like the first one appearing anytime during the Bush Administration.