Mr. Instantaneous points to a column by Neal Boortz suggesting that Daschle’s and Gore’s assaults on the media may be part of a long-run campaign to outlaw talk radio, perhaps through the campaign finance laws. I don’t think the Democrats would go that far (I’ve been wrong on that score before), but they may be hoping to ‘shame’ the mainstream media outlets into tilting further to the left. Unfortunately for the Democrats, money talks, and the competitors of Fox News, for example, seem to have figured out that their target audience – people who are interested in news – includes an awful lot of people who think the media is too liberal and want to hear at least a semblance of objective reporting, respectful treatment of conservative ideas as such, and opinion commentary by conservative voices. Thus, NBC had Rush Limbaugh doing commentary on Election Night, which is probably one of the things that set so many Democrats off.