George Zimmerman and the Power of Bias

So George Zimmerman apparently helped rescue a family from a car wreck. This sort of thing should only happen in picaresque novels, but apparently, in real life, George Zimmerman helped a family whose SUV had flipped after it went off the road. Right-wing blogs took this as confirmation that Zimmerman is just a good guy who was trying to keep people safe the night he followed, and eventually shot, Trayvon Martin.

And what about left-wing blogs? Did they update their opinion of Zimmerman's interior life accordingly? Not exactly, as far as I can tell. Folks like Max Read of Gawker hastened to emphasize that he was still an awful person. Over at Jezebel, editors speculated that he'd "camped out under an army blanket just waiting for a car accident at a busy intersection so he could begin to repair his damaged reputation."