Some interesting things to note aboute Howie's column on Gore: 1. He admits that the VRWC is real:

Not since Hillary Clinton has a prominent Democrat so publicly ripped the conservatives for making people with D after their names look bad. (Although in Hillary's case, what the VRWC was charging – that her husband was carrying on with the intern – turned out to be true.)

2. The conservative media is a reality:

The conservative media aren't going anywhere. Deal with it.

3. Conservatives have been using the shibboleth of the liberal media to scare their base:

Let's say Gore is right, that conservative news outlets are trying to blacken the reputations of people like him. Doesn't complaining about it just sound like whining? Or is he playing to his base, the way conservatives have done all these years by moaning about the liberal media?

It is interesting the kind of things that can be revealed when someone thinks they are actually defending their paymasters.