They're MY moral values, too, you bible-waving twits

When I took some recent Zogby polls, the question of moral values and whether they apply to one's choice of a presidential candidate came up several times. They certainly did apply in my case--I consider the Bush administration to be immoral beyond belief.

Answering these questions made me suspicious about the now famous 22% of exit poll voters who said that moral values were their greatest concern in choosing a candidate.

Though ignored by the news media at large, it came out a couple of weeks ago that "moral values" were hardly ever mentioned by someone if it wasn't on a multiple choice list. The 22% response came chiefly from voters who saw a list with the term "moral values" as a choice.

Tonight, my suspicions were confirmed when it came out on Washington Week that many of the people who cited "moral values" as the reason for their voting choice were people voting for Kerry or some other non-Bush candidate. That's right--non-conservatives have moral values. What a concept! Some of us are actually morally opposed to the lying, war-mongering, greedy, hypocritical, misogynistic, freedom-haters in the White House. We take ethical opposition to blowing up a country under false pretenses, letting thousands of African babies die, and destroying American civil liberties.

However, the news media, in all its ignorance, immediately made the leap that the moral values crowd was made up of outraged conservatives.

All praise to Gwen Ifill for using her show as a truth platform, but who else will pick up the story?