So now that projecting the nonsense common of US domestic politics onto Europe proves stubbornly unfertile, we now try and apply the same idiosyncratic retrofit onto Asia?

Humbug. Only reality-challenged "intellectuals" could manage to put a voluntary invasion and occupation of a country based on virtually nationwide embraced flawed and deliberately skewed premises "in perspective" by comparing said mass self-delusion in terms of domestic political parameters - like ever-elusive "Democrat" and "Republican" labels, as if there's any ideological (or fundamental ethical) separation between those two Siamese Twins from Hell.

Some people are so far our of their league... Mrs. Cohen and Green should focus on what they still doesn't grasp about the self-destructive mindset wrecking their own country, instead.

First an admission: I was sloppy, as instead of "Mrs." I should have typed "Messrs." Oh well.

So, what do you base your assertion on that my derision is aimed at "a story about a poll"? You're obviously free to interpret, just don't fabricate projections into a void and then ask questions building on such assumptions. As to your implicit connection of citizenship of a given country and mindset, I disagree with that projection, as well. Your subsequent friendly recommendations about breathing, punctuation and librarians are duly noted yet thoughtfully dismissed also, alas.

Now, about the point with more relevant traction, in your third paragraph: the commonality resides in their baffling ability to measure along Manichean yardsticks. The varying degree to which "journalists" demonstrably lack a professional backbone is more a function of submission of oneself to politically justifiable (emphatically not deserving the qualifier "correct") groupthink, the force of which is quite strong here, in the US.

Sad, that intellectual freedom is mistreated and abused so much and so widely, especially where it suffers the additional injuring insult of espoused collectivist adhesion, misrepresented as somehow stemming from the very libertarian tradition that gave birth to this very country.