Newsflash to Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly: Fox News is part of the mainstream media. When you’re on TV, carried on every major metropolitan area’s cable nets and have the highest ratings of any cable news network, you kinda lose your “outsider” status. Get it?

O’REILLY: … And you know, there are some people who hate this government, hate their country right now, and blaming Bush for all the terrorism and all the horror in the world. Here’s a question, Michelle. Do they have a right to this opinion without being scorned?

MALKIN: No, without being scorned, no. And I wouldn’t call it scorned. I would call it scrutiny. And the mainstream media is not doing it.

I mean, The New York Times editorial board is all too eager to prop her up as some sort of martyr and to buy her line when clearly her story hasn’t checked out.

O’REILLY: Yes, her story hasn’t changed.

MALKIN: And so I think - and I think that angle you’re emphasizing is absolutely right here, which is the mainstream media just lapping this up and perpetuating myths and inaccuracies when they know it’s not the truth.