A big part of liberal media bias is the insatiable need to create drama about any intra-party Republican disagreements, while downplaying or ignoring Democratic divisions. Even the most liberal media outlets agreed that last week’s CNBC debate was a flaming dirigible, but when the Republican party cancelled the next NBC debate and the candidates started talking about taking more control of the debate process themselves, the media suddenly realized this looked bad for their profession as a whole. They started dishing out some astonishingly defensive responses. These ranged from laughably unnecessary outrage to suggesting that this means Republicans are disdaining Hispanics.

But but the silliest example of bedwetting is the idea that this means that wanting better debates run by more professional journalists means that Republicans are against free speech. It’s not entirely an errant thought. Either that, or journos are all hanging out on the same list-serv again: