The Democrats at “Media Matters for America” are criticizing the Washington Post for using the words “shadow Democratic Party” to describe the groups that Harold Ickes and George Soros are running to trash Bush with soft money. Why, Tom Edsall is using a phrase started by the Republicans!

Earth to Media Matters: does the phrase not FIT? Are they not a group of powerful Democrats doing Democratic bidding without being officially connected to the party? Liberal reporters would laugh conservative media critics off the stage for this level of hypersensitivity. This only underlines that Media Matters is not about correcting inaccuracy. There is no plausible charge of inaccuracy in this microscopic complaint. To them, Tom Edsall should be calling these liberal 527s “charities for America’s future.”