ERICKSON: If A Conservative Speaks, Will Liberals Hear?

If a tree falls in a forest with no one around, does it make a noise? That grade school joke of sorts has a serious contemporary equivalent. It is increasingly clear that if a conservative speaks up, liberals will not actually hear it unless the conservative tells them what they want to hear. Consider four separate and unrelated stories that now all relate.

The Washington Post just covered the story of a student killed by the MS-13 gang. To the paper’s credit, it has fairly extensively covered MS-13 in its local reporting. But nationally, conservatives have raised concerns about the gang mostly to deaf media ears.