Guest post by Loki

I have long believed the Helena Independent Record has a decidedly liberal bias. Today my curiosity found even more evidence to support my belief.

I was reading the Helena IR Sunday looking at the bestseller book lists. I was looking at the nonfiction hardcover list when I noticed Rachel Maddow’s book ‘Drift’ was listed as number two on the list. But I couldn’t find Bill O’Reilly’s book ‘Killing Lincoln’ or Edward Klein’s book ‘The Amateur’.

So I quickly searched my way to the New York Times bestseller’s list. There I found ‘Killing Lincoln’ at number six and ‘The Amateur” at number one. I had to search way down the list to find Maddow’s book ‘Drift’ at twenty-eighth on the list.

So even in the entrainment and lifestyles section of the Helena IR they have found a way to give a biased view of the world to their captive readers. No wonder there is such a large group of liberals in Helena. The ordinary citizens’ only news sources in Helena are all liberal.

Subtle bias influences people so that they don’t even know they are being influenced. And the Helena IR seems to have learned this lesson well.