We are living in a Bizarro world. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has been keeping the voter fraud issue alive for weeks. His blog has nearly daily entries on it. I've mentioned him several times before.

So what does a champion conspiracy theorist think about the election? See if you can guess who this quote came from:

"I think Bush got more votes." [audience cheers]
"I think that the, I think the people don't want to change Presidents during a time of war. We've never done that. People were afraid, we were attacked, you know, he promised that he would -- you know, the Republicans, I'll give them this, they had a story to tell, and the Democrats oftentimes aren't very good at telling a story. But the Republicans tell really good stories. And his story was very powerful."

..."I think he's very good at telling that story, and the story was, 'Out of the ashes of September 11th rose one man, and he stood on the rubble of lower Manhattan with a bullhorn, and he said, "I will protect you." And he did. And we were never attacked again.' [light applause]

"And that's a powerful story to tell. It has nothing to do as to whether or not we will be attacked again or whether we're really safer now as a result of his actions. But when you ask people, 'Now, tell me the Democrats' story. What was the thing they were trying to tell the American people? And you start to flummox all around trying to figure out what exactly, you know, was that."

Who said it? Michael Moore to Jay Leno. (transcribed by Media Research Center)

In the meantime, Olbermann has been getting a lot of his information directly or indirectly from a woman named Bev Harris who runs a web site called Black Box Voting.

By now, even Olbermann is getting a little suspicious of Harris.

What Ms. Harris has left herself open to is a charge that as much as any interest she has in the justifiable public concern over our most precious right - the right to a reliable, honest election - she may also have an interest in making her own documentary, on her own schedule, for her own purposes.

What Ms. Harris has also left herself - and by extension anybody who is advocating investigation, or merely covering the story - open to,is the charge of grandstanding, of tin-foil hatting, of being somebody who bursts in to a room and screams at public officials, videotape running all the time, artificially creating news.

Ms Harris denies everything and blames Olbermann.

I mentioned Media Research Center above. It is a conservative web site that documents liberal bias in the media. It has a liberal counterpart, Media Matters, which documents conservative bias.

So which is it, does the MSM have a liberal or conservative bias? It is instructive to look at what each site covers. Here are today's points from Media Research:

1. ABC's Sawyer Frets Ridge Departure "Makes Us More Vulnerable"
2. Tom Brokaw: "I Reflect the Sensibilities" of Red & Blue States
3. MSNBC's Olbermann Insists: "I'm Not Political. I Don't Vote" (If you don't know who Olbermann is, go back to the top of this post.)
4. Kalb Admires Rather's "Inner Strength" to Denounce Conservatives ("in a Los Angeles Times op-ed on Wednesday, Marvin Kalb, a former correspondent for CBS News and NBC News, saw the threat to journalism as coming from the right and praised Rather for assailing conservatives")

Two involve major network anchors, the third is the host of a prime-time cable news show, and the fourth has been a correspondent for two major networks.

And here are the points from Media Matters:

1. Coulter quoted Donna Brazile out of context; mocked her as "liberals' idea of a 'competent' black woman"
2. Horowitz's "racist" habit
3. Coulter: Canada is "lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent"; Carlson: "Without the U.S., Canada is essentially Honduras"
4. FOX's Jonathan Hunt trafficked in innuendo, vague allegations in oil-for-food coverage
5. SeeThePassion.com founder back on Scarborough to falsely slam Kinsey
6. Discredited Swift Boat Vet seeking conservative handouts
7. Proven liar Horowitz said Media Matters ignores the facts
8. CBS, NBC rejected United Church of Christ ad as "too controversial," despite networks' past airing of advocacy ads
9. O'Reilly to Kerry: "You're a sissy"
10. FOXNews.com, Chicago Sun-Times deleted connection between Ohio official, Bush campaign from AP story

Four (#1, 2, 3 & 7) of these involve two conservative columnists (Horowitz and Coulter). O'Reilly (#9) is a known conservative host. #6 makes an assessment of someone rather than simply repeating what was said. Scarborough County (#5) is a conservative show. Networks have refused to air inflammatory ads before (#9) and the fact that they have aired non-inflammatory ads from other parties is irrelevant.

#10 is a valid point although they are guilty themselves. They describe Blackwell as "co-chairman of Bush's reelection campaign". His post was actually, "honorary co-chairman."

So to summarize a typical day on both sites, the Media Research Center relies mainly on quotes from the nightly news and prime-time news shows. Media Matters relies mainly on quotes from conservative columnists and talk cable shows. Media Research does not have to quote liberal columnists and Media Matters cannot find quotes from MSM prime time shows.

And they wonder why we think that the media is liberal.