If this were so, then why does the liberal left control the major TV networks – ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN – major newspapers, the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, major periodicals, Time, Newsweek, major book publishers, as well as Hollywood?

If there is a conspiracy in the media, it has a liberal coloration. Why, then, is talk radio so overwhelmingly and unabashedly conservative?

Clearly, talk radio is more subject to the vicissitudes of the free market than the aforementioned vast liberal media conglomerates with their long-established informal monopoly on opinion and culture.

Issue-oriented talk radio, on the other hand, depends more on the attention span of the listening public. The average American, who works long hours to keep up when over 40 percent of his income is extracted in taxes, wouldn't likely connect with a big-government-advocating liberal talk show host. This is why liberal talkers are virtually confined to the taxpayer-subsidized NPR (National Public Radio).

Most Americans hate liberalism with its rotten public schools, as evidenced by the popularity of vouchers. In contrast to liberalism, most Americans believe in a supreme being and also inherently understand objective moral principles. This is why liberals, while bloviating (a pompous or boastful manner) about "democracy," seek to install judges and bureaucrats who will do their bidding in a dictatorial way.

No, left-wing liberalism just doesn't fly with the average American talk radio listener.

In fact, I would contend that the vast majority of Americans, including most liberals, are actually conservative! Liberals generally don't admit this, even to themselves, for fear of triggering the predictable hate-filled backlash from the cult of the glitterati (the smart set). They've seen too many auto da fe's (the burning to death of heretics, as in the Spanish Inquisition), played out with the usual nasty disembowelment of a designated conservative "enemy of the people."

Loss of social acceptance and ostracism are coercive tools, which are employed against those who stray too far off the politically correct plantation. This is how bullies try to treat non-conforming children in first-grade schoolyards. The fall from grace is real and traumatic.

Besides the humiliating loss of face, a dissenter from the authoritarian liberal orthodoxy risks financial and career loss, family chasms and worse.

Nevertheless, Americans remain stubbornly conservative, even if they don't vote that way, and America remains a conservative nation.

Most of us admire American corporations and want to see them profit if for no other reason than that we own their corporate stock in our retirement accounts. We want corporations to succeed, expand and create more jobs. We like the incredible products and services that corporations bring to the market. We understand that laws are in place to prosecute corrupt corporate executives and that this can be done without destructive class conflict rhetoric.

The poor and minority poor, poor by American standards, which would be middle class in leftist-controlled countries, also dream the conservative dream of improving their lot by accumulating capital, savings and property. They intrinsically understand, at least at some level, that an economy that allows for capital accumulation is one that encourages opportunity.

They will hopefully wake up one day and realize that they have been played for suckers by a leftist-dominated culture that encourages immorality, promiscuous sex, abortion, welfare, leniency with violent criminals, drugs, race hate and the sweltering oppression of perpetual dependency.

To paraphrase the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "from the mountains of New Hampshire to the hills of Mississippi, let freedom ring."

The liberal elite media may not be left wing enough for the types who read the old Stalinist Nation magazine. Those types speak in dark tones about "corporate" control of liberal media as well. They can often be found summering in places like Cape Cod and the Hamptons.

Of course the mainstream liberal media do at least genuflect slightly toward conservatism in order to maintain any credibility at all. Even the liberal media in America are conservative to a degree, at least in comparison to the media in outright authoritarian socialist states.

After all, at some level, even elite American liberals admire American freedom. Besides, the liberal monopolistic grip on mass media can only go just so far in this era of the Internet and talk radio.

Chuck Morse is a radio talk show host at WROL in Boston.