The eternal whine

John Kerry has joined the chorus of Democrat whiners complaining about the power of the right wing media: Jeff Jacoby pops their bubble:

What Kerry and the others object to is not that there are only conservative voices in media circles these days but that there are any such voices. The right-of-center Fox News cannot hold a candle to the combined left-of-center output of ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and PBS. Scaife, Bradley, and Olin money helps leverage Republican messages, but its impact is dwarfed by the Ford, Rockefeller, Pew, Heinz, MacArthur, Carnegie, and Soros fortunes. The Washington Times is conservative? Yes, but The Washington Post is liberal -- and its circulation is eight times as large.

The problem, as I see it, for Democrats is that they assume that everybody knows they're the ones who really should be in power. All they ever do is make personal insults and bald assertions. They don't make arguments in support of their positions, and when they know the public disagrees with them, they avoid the issue.