LINK THIS, DOUCHEBAGS Counting down to the election, I remain ...

OUCHEBAGS Counting down to the election, I remain convinced that President Bush can beat John Kerry. Too bad he's running against John Kerry and the Democratic operatives at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MTV, PBS, NPR, the Daily Show and all the rest. Hard to believe there was once a quaint time when conservatives only worried about leftist media bias from seven major players.

None of this has stopped the right from spending the '04 election spinning their own sad cocoon of conservatism. There'll be a lot of baffled bloggers when-or, to play it safe, if-Bush loses at the polls.

Others won't be surprised. This election's recurring theme has been a giddy blog posting from a Bush supporter such as, say, Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com. Click to find this informative article that nails Kerry to the wall, and you're taken to the website for the Weekly Standard. Yeah, there's an influential news organization that'll rile the public.

Things only became more insufferable after bloggers caught Dan Rather attempting-as they allege-to manipulate the election with fake documents. The conservative blogging community was patting itself on the back right up to the first presidential debate-hosted in a particularly partisan nature by notorious leftist Jim Lehrer of PBS.

The bloggers had changed absolutely nothing. They didn't notice, though. They were too busy live-blogging the debate and making pithy remarks about how Kerry was obviously lying, and isn't it wonderful how all the people who read right-wing blogs know better?

To be fair, these right-wing bloggers don't care about media bias. If these jokers were serious about creating a New Media, the bloggers would be telling the newspapers and networks that they're not interested in being used to create a façade of fairness. Instead, see how the right-wing bloggers now eagerly rush to return journalists' phone calls and to get in front of studio cameras.

Then they rush back to blog about how, gee, those leftists are really great and charming people. That's followed by a self-deprecating remark about how the bloggers didn't get many quotes in that article, or much time on the tv report.

However, you can be sure the newspapers and networks didn't have to worry about these bloggers saying anything confrontational. That might interfere with a potential dinner invitation from their new leftist pals. Conservative bloggers certainly don't want to be mistaken for some kind of wild partisan like Sean Hannity. They might have talked about fact checking Old Media's ass, but now those bloggers just want to kiss butt.