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ballot, those things are voted down in even the most “progressive” states, like California and Oregon.
    The frustration of the culture war is that the traditional army is largely on leave. Many Americans are disengaged from the conflict; in fact, they don’t even know it’s under way. Go to any shopping mall and ask people what they think of the secular-progressive movement and its impact on their lives. You’ll likely get a blank stare followed by the inevitable “What?” But ask about the latest
American Idol
sensation and you’ll have a detailed, open-ended conversation.
    Now, I’m not being an arrogant wise guy here, because this is too important. Escapist entertainment has its place in a healthy life, but unless traditional Americans wake up and pay attention to important things like the culture war, they are going to arise some morning and find their old country has vanished—replaced by the politically correct utopia President Hernandez so kindly laid out for us in her stirring State of the Union speech.
    And while the folks are otherwise occupied, one powerful and battle-ready brigade is very aware and actively engaged on the S-P side. That would be the aforementioned secular media—broadcast and print. The “image” aspect of the culture war is being furiously waged there. Unaware Americans are in real danger of believing all that they read and watch, and that would be disastrous.
    Based on my thirty years of dealings with the national media, I believe the large majority of journalists sympathize with the S-Ps. Let me cite an example. That shrill, pitiful, and hateful far-left radio network Air America was welcomed at its debut with huge media attention—more than twenty positive articles in the
New York Times
alone. Of course, most of the press was deliriously supportive of AA. And it remained so even after Air America collapsed in the ratings and was involved in a dubious loan situation involving a children’s charity in New York City.
    It is fair to say that the print press
desperately
wanted Air America to succeed. Meanwhile, conservative talk radio
is
a huge success just about everywhere in the United States. How many newspaper articles have you seen about that? Chances are, none lately.
    There is no question that the vast preponderance of America’s newspapers have a liberal editorial philosophy. Papers like the
Boston Globe,
the
Washington Post,
the
Baltimore Sun,
the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
the
Miami Herald,
the
New Orleans Times-Picayune,
the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
the
Kansas City Star,
the
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
the
Houston Chronicle,
the
Denver Post,
the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
the
Oregonian,
the
San Francisco Chronicle,
the
Sacramento Bee,
the
Los Angeles Times,
and on and on and on. In fact, the only national paper with a conservative editorial page is the
Wall Street Journal.
Locally, liberal papers outnumber conservative sheets about ten to one.
    Some newspapers, like the
St. Petersburg Times,
no longer even try to hide their secular slant.
Factor
viewers may remember how angry I was when Florida prosecutor Brad King refused to charge three individuals who helped the killer of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford evade capture. King’s action was as disgraceful a law-enforcement decision as I have ever seen. Little Jessica was brutally murdered by John Couey, who initially confessed to holding her captive for days in a small mobile home just yards from Jessica’s house before suffocating the girl. Subsequently, Couey wrote me a letter stating that the others did help him evade police and, according to Couey, one of his “roommates” even knew Jessica was being held captive. But Brad King let the three go.
    After I reported that terrible story and slammed King, the
St. Petersburg Times
attacked me personally. It is my opinion that the paper was totally in the tank for King, and its far-left editorial posture bled