NPR Finally Admits It Has Been Bought and Paid For By RNC

Normally in the post 8:00 a.m. (at least here in fly-over country) news slot with Scott Simon on NPR is Daniel Shorr. I think Mr. Shorr is going a little soft in his old age but he is a respected presence in the Washington press corps. I must also confess that my feeling that Shorr is going soft is only because he isn't tough enough in his criticism of the current administration; he is, like so many other journalists, infected with that need to be perceived as being "fair". It leads to too much blah, blah, blah.

But today, proof that the last relatively (I emphasize the word "relatively") news source has finally given in and joined in on the collective Bush,Cheney,Rove,Rumsfeld, Rice teat suck. Simon's news analyst guest: Jonah Goldberg. Honestly, what could they have been possibly thinking? Asking Jonah how the war in Iraq is going and why the constitutional process doesn't seem to be going too well is like asking Karl Rove why Bush is such a brilliant tactician.

What a terrible way to start the day.

The world must be coming to an end.