Jonah, don’t get the ball rolling on the media in ‘00 and “the illusion of inclusion.” Is the daily work of Rice and Powell and Paige and Martinez and so on “illusion”? You’re dead right on they’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t approach.

In the wake of the Schwarzenegger groping investigations, where too many partisans have swapped sides in a fancy square dance, this should be one of our nearly scientific principles about the observation of media bias: The people expect liberals and conservatives to sometimes switch sides in public controversies for political convenience. What people do not expect from an “objective” press is that they leap to whatever side the liberals are on this minute.