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“The league” is what we commonly call the “establishment” today. This definition of the word “establishment,” which was popularized in the '60s, popped up again (here, I think) to juxtapose and enhance the Tea Party. It contains lamestream press, the two political parties, and the families of influence from Eastern money and Northeastern states, the Kennedy and the Bush apparatuses primarily (Obama proudly walks his Kennedy doggie) and now the Clintons and their generation.

Add mainstream academia and Hollywood to that mix as influential hangers-on and you have a fair approximation of the Establishment of the moment. What has happened, however, is that suddenly major portions of the MSM have discovered that although they consider themselves power brokers they are, in fact, treated very much as hangers-on. Between the AP phone records scandal and the IRS abuse it is painfully apparent that the people they did so much to place in high office have displayed all the gratitude of a pit bull who knows he has his owners' numbers. There is, alas, no particular solidarity in the Ruling Class.

There was always an element of Groupthink involved in the lockstep media campaigns that is a blot on human dignity. It is apparent that within the current media fury there are individuals who are reclaiming their dignity. That does not necessarily mean they're reclaiming their objectivity, but it's a start. A slave has to see his chains before he can can break them.