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by downandout 3600 days ago
Exactly right. Mother Jones is nothing more than a bought and paid for, left-leaning (to the point of tipping over) propaganda machine. Here are some of their awesomely impartial headlines:

Donald Trump's Freefall Captured in Two Scathing Magazine Covers

Republicans Say We Should Just Laugh Off Donald Trump’s Assassination "Joke." No.

How Unpopular Is Trump? Clinton Is Courting Mormon Voters in Utah Now. (subtitle: This is what a landslide looks like.)

The Trump Files: Donald's Recurring Sex Dreams

Philadelphia Elections Official Destroys Conservative Conspiracy Theory that National Elections Are "Rigged"

It keeps going. I wonder who "Mother" wants us to vote for?

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Pretty much every news publication / organization has some internal bias / lean (some more than others). That does not mean their reporting is inaccurate.
Some internal bias is one thing, if it is disclosed. Mother Jones, however, is a bastion of extreme leftist rhetoric that tries to pass itself off as a legitimate source of news. That is the part that is disturbing and very misleading to those that haven't been warned about or don't already know about the site. Maybe some sort of logo, even an arrow pointing to the left or right, or a Chrome plugin that turns the site blue or red for a few seconds when you first go to a page on it, would be good for these kinds of sites.