Media bias vs. 'middle America' candidate

“The reason so many Americans who are pro-life and anti-affirmative action or who support gun rights detest the mainstream media is that day after day they fail to see in the media any respect for their views. What they see is a mainstream media seeming to legitimize one side (the media elites agree with) as valid and moral while seeking to cast the other side as narrow, small-minded, and bigoted.”