2010 Whore of the Year?

Greggers. Legs up and hands down.

David Gregory conns "Meet the Press", the most-watched Sunday morning talk show in America and the flagship of the Villager Centrist bullshit armada. Because of this Greggers wields real power: a guest shot on MTP is worth hard currency and fungible credibility; repeated appearances increase your Very Serious Person line of credit exponentially.

And who was Greggers' most-invited guest in 2009?

This guy:

Newt Gingrich, who (as I have mentioned before) has been a real curve-breaking innovator in Republican lying, adultery, hypocrisy, racism and demagogy practically since the beginning of recorded time.

Also he hasn't held a single elected office since "Ally McBeal" was on teevee.

And for years this shambling stack of human offal has continued to exist as a person-of-influence because?

In case you are just skimming past en route to Alpha Centauri and have no idea about who or what a "Newt Gingrich" is, he is a multiply-humiliated Republican personality who gloms onto whatever wingnut conspiracy theory or demagogic lunacy Fox News is peddling this week and lends it a portion of his ever-diminishing credibility.

He then collects money for rolling in his own shit until the results get too horrifying for even the clowns who run the American news media to ignore.

Then he goes in the Villager penalty box for awhile, until the clowns who run the American news media wear the corners off of their short list of Conservative and "moderate" ass-lickers and apple polishers, and need someone to come on to add a little "fizz" to their stupefyingly turgid and deeply dishonest puppet show.

Then the clowns who run the American news media draw straws to see who gets to let "Nazi" Newt out of the penalty box this time.

And then the Circle of Corporate Media Fake Journalism Life is Complete.

But this year, with Newt’s infamous "Obama is a Kenyan anti-colonial..." and "Muslim=Nazi" comments, he very publicly belly-flopped into the Conservative racist cesspit once again, paddled to the bottom and started digging into its gooey shitbed to see if he couldn't get just a little bit lower.

Over in the Better Universe this would have ended Newt's public career in a blaze of Al Campanis/Jimmy-the-Greek celebrity-suicide-by-monstrously-ugly-remark-to-the-third-power shame: when added to Newt's already long history of saying hideously despicable things, Gingrich would have been lucky to spend the rest of his days not having poo thrown at him by respectable citizens every time he stuck his head into the sun.

But of course this is not the Better Universe: this is the universe where, rather than risk committing an act of actual journalism by asking Newt a single question about his grotesque behavior, Greggers instead used his stewardship of the biggest tent at the Mouse Circus to obediently let that clown back out of the box one more time in an appearance that Gingrich now highlights on his own site.

Your Emmy awaits, Mr. Gregory.