Idaho Blogs: Too Much Coverage Of IVA?

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?