Do red-blooded, hard-working Americans pay thousands of dollars each year to send their children to college, only to have those kids turned into pot-smoking Obamacare-lovers by a pack of communist hippies?

This reads like a Fox News poll.

I didn't find the article all that inflammatory on my initial read through.  The first read was mostly cursory and half-assed just to pick up the writer's tone and bits of info without spending too much time on it.  Despite clearly being written by a fairly conservative reporter it was pretty peaceful, it aimed more to put liberals and conservatives on equal ground* instead of what I expected which would be to make liberals look like pompous assholes and conservatives like heroes.

Then I read Bistro's friend's statements and read through it again.  Bistro's friend has that pretty spot on, the information provided was poorly and probably quickly put together.  Due to its purpose though, I'm not going to condemn it just because it seems to be aiming to equalize opposing groups* rather than separate them.  

*: It still noted large separations in ideology and purpose in life but still posted both groups as being similar in that they are humans striving for success through education.

(This has been written by a Liberal Democrat/Utopian Socialist and combat veteran of the US Armed Forces but does not mean to express the views of the US Armed Forces)

Edit:

This reads like a Fox News poll.

I had to scroll back to the top to check the website after I read that, I thought I have been redirected to Fox.

Scix, do you think you could detail a little better than I did what went wrong here? I feel like you get where I'm coming from, and aside from my accusations of cultural ignorance, which are quite arguable, I think you have more experience in breaking these matters down than I do.

What's the deal with Scix and bad journalism, anyway?

What's the deal with Scix and bad journalism, anyway?

Among my many past lives (meant figuratively, put away your chakras), I was a journalist. as such, I am a bit more critical of journalism than some. I hold to starry-eyed ideals that were never historically accurate: namely, that the reporter should do his very best to keep his own biases out of the article, that he should research as much as humanly possible to verify the veracity of the story, and that sloppy language and misleading headlines are a very, very bad idea.

Yep.

Most journalism seems to be becoming Op Eds.