My Wednesday column begins like so:
Modern conservatives generally suffer from a persecution complex. At every opportunity, they leap at the chance to rend their garments and violently wail about being victimized by liberals.
The most evident example of this psychosis is the conservative notion of a “liberal news media” engaged in a continuous effort to deliberately ignore any stories that are favorable to conservative values — the deliberate squelching of Republican successes paralleled by an ongoing plot to cover-up Democratic failures. As we’ve discussed many times, however, this is total bullshit. Conservatives control the entire AM radio dial; they control the most popular cable news network; they control a considerable cross-section of newspapers via Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers; they control the corporate parent companies of just about everything and, most importantly, everyone else in the news media insists upon stacking on-air panels with a disproportionate number of conservative analysts while infuriatingly manufacturing false equivalences in the name of “balance.”
Oh but, yeah, the news media is a cabal of effete San Francisco liberal Democratic Party operatives driven by the lockstep endgame of crushing the silent majority under its commie jack-boots.
A similar tall tale is playing out in the IRS scandal. [continue reading here]