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Oh, and betcha didn't know that the Washington Post's David Broder is really a closet conservative? Well, apparently he is.

At no point did any left-wing activist in the audience seriously dispute any of this. (Except maybe for the woman behind me who took strong exception to Alterman's stray comment that Bush wasn't a moron.)

Instead, they lapped it up. After all, is there any other way to explain how conservatives could ever win when 70% of the people (Alterman's figure) agree with the left?

During the Q&A, the audience asked if there was anything they could do to break the right's stranglehold on politics. Alterman wasn't very optimistic. The right doesn't fight fair, while the left almost always does, so it'll always be at a disadvantage, he explained.

As it happens, this talk occurred on the very same day that Senate Democrats -- under pressure from left-wing groups -- sank Miguel Estrada's judicial nomination because the ABA endorsed lawyer was "too extreme."

Now, what was that about useful myths?

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