Fox News and CNN, the two most powerful news networks in the U.S., both mention the phrase “liberal media” extensively on their web sites.¹ In fact, the phrase “Liberal Media” returns 432 current news articles in Google News. (In contrast, the term “Conservative Media” returns 95 articles.)

“Clearly,” said one media analyst, “editors of major media outlets think that they, themselves, are liberal — and this makes them very angry. At themselves.”

But one media executive begged to differ: “Those liberal media nutjobs’ll tell you anything to turn this country into a liberal nuthouse! And by ‘those liberal media nutjobs,’ I mean ‘me and my editorial staff.’ After all, we do have a 20% share of the prime-time TV news market.”

“God do I hate those bleeding-heart liberals,” he concluded, before jumping out his penthouse window, overwhelmed by the paradox of being simultaneously liberal and conservative.

And according to Fox News, the highest Nielsen rated News Network, Saddam Hussein may “have the liberal media in his hip pocket.”

(One liberal media outlet is Eric Alterman’s web site. Znet is a left media outlet.)