Griper Blade: Regularly Scheduled Programming

The big news today is that the Rules Committee for the Democratic Convention will meet today and tomorrow and bang out a some sort of compromise on the delegates from Florida and Michigan.

Except, it's not.

In a completely unrelated and totally coincidental revelation that was probably not orchestrated at a very opportune time by Team Clinton, Barack Obama woke up to video of a Catholic Priest -- as a guest speaker at his church -- making fun of Hillary Clinton crying. I guess we're supposed to forget that pretty much every late night talk show host did the same thing. You'd think that Clinton comparing her own party to Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe would get some press, but the media doesn't play that way -- if they did, they'd have to get into this whole big, long thing about what's going on in Zimbabwe. That'd just take time that could be better used showing you video of Mariah Carey doing an awful job of throwing out the first pitch at a Tokyo baseball game. No one wants to miss that, Mariah looks too cute in those shorts and heels and floppity ponytail to pass up. Pretty gaijin lady pitches to the dirt -- how unfortunate.

For their part, the media's reaction the church video has been "Yay! A new pastor scandal!"

Except it's not Obama's pastor.

But that doesn't keep a news media -- who, I remind you, always assumes you're a freakin' moron -- from running the clip once every half hour.

Of course, there's been other news this week. Former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan wrote a "tell-all" book. While what Scottie wrote is being called a "revelation," it's really just a confirmation of what everyone already knows -- the Bush White House is a BS factory in what McClellan calls "permanent campaign" mode. The only real news there is that someone everyone assumed was a loyal Bushie wrote it.

Yeah, I'm ridiculing the television media. If you read me often, you're used to it. If you don't, get used to it. They're missing big stories to focus on stories that can't possibly have any lasting importance -- with the possible exception of the McClellan story, where they're downplaying their own part in that scandal. But one story they're missing hasn't happened yet. I guess we can give them time to catch the obvious, but I'm not holding my breath...

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