The Myth Of The Liberal Media Empowers

The Word Liberal Has Been Employed As The Political Equivalent Of An Untreatable But Potentially Containable Social Disease -- The Kind That Could Be Contracted Merely By Going To A Foreign Movie Or Ordering A Decaf Latte, Or Worse, A Glass Of French Wine.

More And More, Democrats Are Starting To Worry They That They Have A More Um, Colorful Version Of Jimmy Carter On Their Hands. Obama Acts Cool As A Proverbial Cucumber But That Awful '70s Show Seems Frightfully Close To A Rerun.

To Own The Dominant, Or Only, Newspaper In A Mid-sized American City Was, For Many Decades, A Kind Of License To Print Money. In The Internet Age, However, No One Has Figured Out How To Rescue The Newspaper In The United States Or Abroad.

Few Progressives Would Take Issue With The Argument That, Significant Accomplishments Notwithstanding, The Obama Presidency Has Been A Big Disappointment.

Fox News Is Nothing If Not Impressive. No Matter How Harsh The Criticism It Endures, The Network Somehow Always Manages To Prove Itself Even Worse Than We Had Previously Imagined.