An excerpt from an email:

I’m always entertained when one journalist takes aim at a fellow journalist for manipulating the facts, having an overridding political slant, and in general being a swell-headed gasbag. I’ll give you credit for delivering some genuinely funny lines about arriving to court in a mini-clown car and Kennedys driving home from an office party, but let’s face it, left-leaning op-ed columnists could pretty much say the same things about Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Bill O’Reilly. …

Me: I am simply amazed how often I hear this nonsense from liberals. On the one hand, I constantly hear it is absurd to believe in a liberal media. But then I constantly hear liberals compare Dan Rather to folks like Limbaugh, Coulter and O’Reilly.

Did I pick the wrong week to start sniffing glue again, or is this just goofy? Yes, of course, Limbaugh Coulter and O’Reilly are more biased than Dan Rather. But that’s their job! They are opiners in every sense. Dan Rather, meanwhile, was the heir to Cronkite and Murrow. He was the “most trusted man in America” or something like that. He ridiculed the idea that there was anything like media bias and that he was interested in anything but the facts. That liberals — obviously not all or most of them – think that the comparison is relevant is the biggest indictment of Rather imaginable. If Rather is on the same plane as the objectively and proudly conservative Limbaugh and Coulter, than the MSM is even more ideologically biased than Brent Bozell and I have been saying all these years.