SINCE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION, prominent Democrats have said what prominent Democrats have said in past years–namely, that we have to do something about the much too powerful conservative media. Now, Democrats actually are doing something–or starting to. So we learn from the New York Times.

In a front-page story on, of all days for new beginnings, January 1, the Times reported that “influential Democrats are scouring the nation for a liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh and the many others on the deep bench of Republican friends.”