We will be watching Media Watch
with interest tonight, not least to see if presenter Liz Jackson takes
up hairy Canadian provocateur Mark Steyn’s challenge of a live-to-air
interview.

Steyn has been grizzling about the show’s treatment of him, most recently labelling Media Watch “a bunch of saps” in this column on Friday.

The much-imitated conservative cheerleader is upset at Media Watch‘s
claim he’d fallen for an obvious hoax by championing the cause of 9/11
“whistleblower” Johnell Bryant. “What sort of fearless media watchdogs
take an official report and US immigration ‘records’ as gospel?” fumes
Steyn. “A bunch of saps, that’s who.”

“In our correspondence
with ABC, I offered to do a live interview with the show, but they
wimped out,” he writes. “My offer of a live interview on Johnell
Bryant, Mohammed Atta, the 9/11 Commission and anything else still
stands – anytime they feel they’re up to it.”

We reckon the
chances of that happening are about the same as John Howard conceding
he was wrong all along and admitting that there is a connection after
all between Australia’s prosecution of the war on terror and terrorist
activity. Zero.