On the other hand, despite having one of the most widely-read blogs in the world you'll almost never see him on TV. Both the right-wing and the left-wing sides of the media don't like to show conservatives unless they're angry and fire-breathing. And even the most intelligent of the fire-breathing conservatives (say, Krauthammer) always come off as non-thoughtful.
Please remove you head from the sand.
I'll put up Thomas Sowell, Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg, and George Will up against whoever you want from the Left any day.
Furthermore, I submit that I think the Left often makes the error of mistaking the Right's distaste for having the "intellectual elites" run their lives for a distaste in intelligence informing their lives.