Here’s one way media bias expresses itself: I got in touch with a producer at a liberal media outlet to which I have been cordially invited to contribute.

I said I’d like to do a commentary on the inappropriateness of the University of Pennsylvania asking Kofi Annan to be its commencement speaker this month and planning to award the UN Secretary-General an honorary (honorary!) doctorate of law (law!).

She replied that it’s not really a big controversy. I suggested that it might become one – if it were to be reported on in the MSM, or even if she were let me raise objections to it. After all, were an Ivy League University to invite Ken Lay – or even Tom DeLay – to speak and accept an honorary degree, does anyone doubt that the MSM would be all over the story and that it would be a mega-controversy within hours?

But, OK, I said, if that idea doesn’t grab you, let it go. I then proposed several other ideas – not one of which, I’m afraid, would tend to reinforce liberal notions of what’s wrong with the world, America, conservatives, Republicans and President Bush. Guess what? She wasn’t taken with any of them.

Meanwhile, my Scripps column on Kofi and the University of Pennsylvania is here.