That you see no problem about the U.S. "paper of record" being blatantly partisan, well, I'm not surprised. After all, it's partisan in your favor, right?

At least we seem to have gotten past the jackass proposition that the "liberal media" is all in the conservative imagination.

...Limbaughs, Hannitys, and hundreds of other conservative talk shows

If you can name a dozen national ones, I'd be surprised.

And of course, Fox News. One, single, frigging cable news network, out of all the other cable, public, and broadcast networks, and it sticks in the liberal craw like you wouldn't believe.

I get the impression that ANY conservative voice is one voice too many for a lot of people. Certainly there is a constant attempt in parts of Congress to rejigger FCC rules to smash talk radio. So far, they've gotten nowhere, but they keep trying. And as I pointed out, the hostility to Fox News' very existence is palpable.

Goldberg said it best last year:

Yes, yes, Fox News has its head and its heart wired together for some full-tilt boogie for freedom and justice. Absolutely: NRO remains the Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu waza Banga of the worldwide web. I couldn't agree more that the blogosphere serves as a digitized sprinkler system of intellectual whup-ass against the elite media. Dan Rather has gotten so weird, any day now he's going to simply sign off his broadcasts with "Look! Cows!" Etc. All those clichés are true.

But, in all of this euphoria some folks seem to be losing sight of something fairly obvious. Conservatives are still astoundingly outgunned and out manned. It's bully for us that the Right is having so much success with the tools at our disposal — cable TV, AM radio, websites, blogs, mime — but the tools at our disposal are still far, far less potent than the tools in the Left's utility belt.

Think about it: If we'd really won a culture war — with all of the aggrandizement of territory implied by such a term — wouldn't our troops be raising our flags in a few more enemy forts? Sure, we've mounted a few heads on a few pikes. But Phil Donahue did most of his damage 20 years ago. By the time he suited up for MSNBC, he was less a formidable culture warrior and more like one of those WWI veterans who sits outside the VFW talking about putting the kibosh on the Kaiser. And, sure, David Brooks now writes for the New York Times, and hooray for that. But he's still the "house goy" over there, ideologically speaking. Meanwhile, I don't see Harvard, Yale, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Hollywood, the Episcopal Church, or the Courts, getting demonstrably more conservative.

Which brings me back to Harrington's pie. 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.