These posts represent the opinions of the posters based on published articles in the Helena Independent Record. Although they are rated and ranked the posters are not scientists and their ranking is of an amateur nature and is for discussion purposes only.
Any comments are the sole responsibility of said posters and we may not agree with their posts. We do not have any control of who posts.
Starting in May a new ranking system will be started. The scale will be expaned from 0-3 to 0-10 because the rankings becomes compacted making the results more pronounced.
Bias rating for the Helena IR opinion writers. This is data colected from www.lyinginponds.com and subjective ranking by visiting conservative and liberal web sites for those not ranked at lyinginponds. I am posting this so that everyone will know how each writer is ranked. Should you disagree let me know with a valid reason. In all cases if possible lyinginponds will be the final judge. If a writer is not posted in lyinginponds or there ranking is old I may be swayed to modify their ranking but my judgement will also be final.
Conservatives 0-10 rating (round(rating/10))
Mona Charen 57C 6
Cal Thomas 43C 4
Linda Chavez 36C 4
David Brooks 35C 4
George Will 28C 3
William Safire 22C 2
Walter Williams 4C 0
Liberals
Paul Krugman 76L 8(avg of two years)
Molly Ivins 69L 7
Ellen Goodman 60L 6
Tom Teepen 40L 4
Bob Herbert 39L 4
Maureen Dowd 38L 4
Nicholas Kristof 27L 3
Thomas Freidman 14L 1
