By Ken Shepherd | May 2, 2014 | 5:50 PM EDT

The liberal media all too often confuses temperamentally "low-key" red-state Democrats for moderates when their voting record is anything but. 

The latest example comes today in Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold's 40-paragraph front-page profile for Sen. Mark Pryor, who is facing a tight reelection battle against the "sharply conservative" Tom Cotton. Pryor's "personality matches his politics: He is low-key and averse to big changes," Fahrenthold offered a few paragraphs after uncritically allowing Pryor to insist he's: