Democratic Party is actually merely the Elective Office Subdivision of the greater Liberal Media Party

What if the drive-by-media is not the handmaiden of the Democrats. Suppose instead they are the agenda setters and elected Democrats are simply following marching orders? Would the world make more sense?

Possibly.

Andrew Breitbart addressed some VIP college Republicans. I guess it was a select group of big college leaders. His speech was actually off-the-record, so I can't report much about it, except to say that it was about his own political awakening, the liberal media, and the soft blacklist against conservatives in Hollywood. His major point is that the media is actually far, far more important a political player than the Democratic Party itself, and, one might say (my words, not his), the Democratic Party is actually merely the Elective Office Subdivision of the greater Liberal Media Party. Harry Reid and Tom Daschle may come and go, but the liberal media is eternal. And of course this was all a preamble to a call for conservatives to become players themselves in the media, including Hollywood itself, whose storytelling through tears and very charismatic actors has more emotional and visceral impact than any twenty slanted stories by David Schuster.

Try this thought experiment: Imagine the Democratic leadership doing the exact opposite of the NY Times editors!

It. Would. Not. Happen.

They would be brought to heel in a New York minute.