To hear several bloggers tell it, Bryan Fischer and Brandi Swindell are a two-headed soundbite-spewing monster created and sated by the media. Including the Statesman and its opinion page. Wow, and all for doing my job: Ensuring our Opinion pages make space for a variety of opinions. The bloggers seized on Dan Popkey's Thursday column on the seemingly never-ending Ten Commandments monument. Popkey blasted Fischer and Swindell as publicly hounds, and criticized the media for giving these two conservative activists so much ink/Kevin Richert, Idaho Statesman. More here. IVA's reaction to controversy.

*Open carry of guns is new black helicopter/Unequivocal Notion
*Limbaugh listeners vs. NPR listeners/Clayton Cramer
*Advice for Popkey/IdaBlue
*Thank you, Wal*Mart supporters/Palousitics
*On the gas line in Idaho/Randy Stapilus

Question (from Kevin Richert): Should we quote conservatives? Or should we ignore them?

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