By Steve Barrett

Fun with media bias

There was hilarity aplenty when the Media Research Center hosted its annual gala recently and offered its usual scalding critique of the liberal media.

A few highlights:

— MRC founder and President L. Brent Bozell III parodied the media (slightly) by noting the pleasure reporters seem to take when they can work into a single article references to former President Bush, former Vice President Cheney, Hurricane Katrina, Halliburton and “pedophilic homeschoolers.”

— Culture warrior Andrew Breitbart urged listeners not to tune out the parade of hyperactive leftists who populate MSNBC: “Please tell your friends to watch these people. These people are manifestly insane.”

— Nationally syndicated talk radio host Mark Levin took aim at perennial liberal apologist Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball”: “He has so few viewers that you could reveal national security secrets on his show and not violate the espionage act.”

Steve Barrett can be reached at sbarrett@timesfreepress.com.