Is the right willing to hear opposing voices? - CNN.com: Uh, no, but read on.
"...Sometime before these events, a young Cato Institute blogger named Julian Sanchez proposed the term 'epistemic closure' to describe what was happening in the conservative world. That's a fancy way of saying that minds are closed to contradictory information.
And one demonstration of how minds are closed? The ability to raise a howl about liberal close-mindedness after the firing of Juan Williams -- without recalling one's own side's exactly comparable actions not even 90 days ago."
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