Jonah, this is an old song, but, I agree, it’s important to sing it: The world gives you so many occasions. I remember when Nightline would have as its two pundits — Left and Right — George Stephanopoulos and David Gergen. I used to comment that they had both served in the Clinton communications shop. I also trotted out the old line, “All points of view from A to B” — or maybe A to L? N?

And I’m reminded why conservatives had to build their own media outlets. It’s sort of like Jews and country clubs. Jews built their own, not because they wanted to, necessarily, but because the other clubs wouldn’t let them in. They weren’t being “clannish.” They wanted to play golf, on first-class courses.

(Groucho on his daughter: “She’s only half Jewish. Can she play nine holes?” Alternatively, “She’s only half Jewish. Can she go into the pool up to her knees?”)

Well, we conservatives built our own media outlets — because the other clubs wouldn’t let us in. I guess it’s working out okay. But there are interesting arguments to be made, and listened to.

Just by the way: Isn’t it sort of insane that, in the years when Bill Buckley was the most brilliant and entertaining columnist in the land, the New York Times didn’t want him on its op-ed page? Wouldn’t he have been an adornment? Isn’t it sort of insane that he never won the Pulitzer prize for commentary? When they were giving it to people who weren’t fit to change the ribbon on his Smith-Corona?

But enough insanity . . .

P.S. Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize.

P.P.S. Of course, we have think tanks because they wouldn’t let us serve on the faculties of the universities. And we have talk-radio shows because . . . Etc., etc., etc.