Michelle Malkin gives a spirited defense of conservative talk radio. It’s really quite simple why the goons at the Wall Street Journal despise Rush Limbaugh and his fellow radio hosts: They can’t control them. Establishment newspapers and television networks have lost their monopoly on opinion, analysis, and commentary and are lashing out at those with whom they must now compete for readers, viewers, and listeners. The Wall Street Journal is no different, in my mind, from the New York Times. Both are willing to sell out this country on the immigration issue: the Journal for the sake of profits and the Times for the sake of cosmopolitanism.

Addendum: Let me comment on Helprin’s column. He seems to be daring conservative critics of John McCain to either stay home on election day or vote for the Democrat candidate. He seems confident that they won’t do either of these things. In other words, he thinks they will fall in line, like dutiful sheep. Won’t he be surprised when many of them don’t? People like Helprin should be bending over backward to persuade conservatives to support McCain. Instead, they abuse them. Can you imagine anything more arrogant and stupid? It’s breathtaking. I think it will do conservatism good to lose the White House for four, eight, or 12 years. It would send a message to the conservative establishment that the base is unhappy about the direction of the Republican Party, which, on issues such as globalization and immigration, have put profit before patriotism.