Conservative journalism, it would seem, is at a crossroads. Conservatives dominate talk radio and the cable news shoutfests, but pundits from the right still complain that the mainstream media, and investigative journalism in particular, is dominated by liberals.
I won't debate that point here, but it is true that the most important, and certainly best-known investigative scoop of our time involved Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein exposing the Watergate scandal, revelations that brought down the presidency of Republican Richard Nixon.
And while Fox News and right-wing bloggers maintain a steady drumbeat of op-ed opposition to liberalism in general and the Obama administration in particular, opinions, in the end, don't carry the blunt force of facts, no matter how loudly they're shouted.
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