I have shot this particular pantload down about three times here. But, what the hey.

My favorite lie, heard many times:

The very notion that the media, owned by conservative international corporations would be liberal is absurd.

When nailed on this, the liberal will pipe up with "Rupert Murdoch!" and stand there grinning like a parrot that has learned a new trick.

You mention Ted Turner. The grin fades. Then ask them who runs the Disney corporation. Is he a Democrat or a Republican? How about Viacom? General Electric? Do you know the name of Murdoch's corporation? Do you really know what they own?

How about the other forty or so media conglomerates? Who owns them? What are their politics?

Or is it just a matter of leftist faith that anyone running a business or having millions of dollars has to be a rabid conservative?

And of course, the fact that over ninety percent of those who write the stories, make the newsreels, and actually create the news are not conservatives apparently means nothing. The objective fact that what pours out of the mainstream media is liberally biased means nothing.

You list Fox, the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Care to expand that list? There are several cable news outlets, network news outlets, local news outlets, and hundreds of newspapers across this country. Any more members of the Right Wing Conspiracy among them? Go ahead, find me five more newspapers that are nationally-known "right-wing rags."

You have no idea what you're talking about.

The Left is just royally pissed that:

A: There are any opposing voices at all

B: When given a free choice, a large number of Americans choose to listen to those voices.

Expect to see them try to shut those voices up using government force in 2004. You heard it here first.

As Jonah Goldberg says:

...If conservatives have such a lock on the culture these days, as Al Gore, Al Franken, and others keep insisting, why don't we just switch sides? The Left can have Fox News, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, the lavish offices of National Review and The Weekly Standard, as well as Sean Hannity's and Rush Limbaugh's airtime. The gangs at the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation will clear out their desks, give John Podesta the code to the Xerox machine, and tell Eric Alterman where in the neighborhood to buy the best gyros.

In return, we'd like the keys to the executive bathrooms at ABC, CBS and NBC, please. We'd like the cast of Fox and Friends to take over The Today Show's studios ("and tell Couric to take her Cabbage Patch dolls with her!"). We want Ramesh Ponnuru as the editor of the New York Times and Rich Lowry can have his choice between Time and Newsweek. Matt Labash will get Esquire and let's set up Rick Brookhiser at Rolling Stone (that way they won't have to change their drug coverage). Andrew Sullivan can have The New York Times Magazine. Robert Bork will be the dean of the Yale Law School and the faculty of Hillsdale and Harvard will simply switch places. Cornell West will be airbrushed out of The Matrix and Harvey Mansfield will take his place (though convincing him say anything other than "you call that a haircut?" will be hard). NRO will get the bazillions of dollars spent by the editors of Salon and Slate, and those guys can start paying their authors with chickens and irregular tube socks made in Albania.

In other words, talk to me about how we've won the culture war when Dinesh D'Souza wins a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and Maya Angelou has to blog about it because no one at the New York Times will run her pieces.