You are so right, plus the fish-wrap print organs also.
We can know this with certainty because even during the run-up to the 2010 mid-terms, all the leftist media were shilling for each and every democrat that ran, for state legislature and gubernatorial positions, and they were shellacked. The media had no power to persuade then, and as you say, this issue clearly renders them impotent, as far as their ability to carry the day the way they once did is concerned.
Well we need more time because the paper shredders can only shred so much at at time and there is just too much to get rid of...