This just in from the Whine Cellar...

Looks like Fox News is laying the smacketh down on the competition and the leftist-infested MSM is collectively freaking out.

While firmly rejecting the conservative label...

And rightly so. FNC, in and of itself, is not a conservative news station. But, when shown in comparison with the rest of the MSM it does look like a conservative news station. That isn't because FNC is so right-leaning. It's because the rest of the MSM is so left-leaning.

Fox embraces its image as the scourge of the media "establishment" -- embodied by the likes of the three broadcast networks and the New York Times -- which it accuses of a long-term liberal bias.

Fox News doesn't need to accuse outlets like NYT of possessing a liberal bias. Anyone with more than three brain cells and is intellectually honest knows the NYT, and much of the rest of the MSM, has a liberal bias. This article, and its hysterical author, serve as a pretty good example.

Fox mixes it's straight news coverage with populist opinion-led programming...

So? So do the other cable news networks.

... such as the "The O'Reilly Factor" -- now the top rated cable news show in the country -- hosted by the unabashedly conservative and pro-Republican Bill O'Reilly.

Has the author of this article even watched Fox News or the O'Reilly Factor?