Check, balance, checkmate.

Jonathan Klein on bloggers:

Well, to hear them tell it, they hold themselves responsible. And, you know, that's fine as far as it goes; it's just not any kind of a third-party or any kind of a reliable check or balance against them.

I guess he's never heard of caveat emptor. If he were the least bit gracious about how bloggers nailed Dan Rather, I might believe that people like him are adequate checks and balances. Once an entire industry becomes so predictably biased that there is a huge audience for Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, they should at least acknowledge that Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and the rest are acting as a check and balance on them.

If you can't question your own assumptions, you have no business lecturing anybody else about checks and balances.