Santa Morning Comin' Down

One million poinsettiae gave their lives to make every tent at the Mouse Circus burn with that mad, feverish, incarnadine glow that says, "Everyone who makes the needles on our political compasses spin is on holiday."

On one side of the midway, Christiane Amanpour dismissed the help and used the platform of “This Week” on the weekend of Jesus of Nazareth's fake birthday to talk four different ways about war, sacrifice and people trying to lift each other up out of misery and loss.

On the other side, David Gregory squandered yet another "Meet the Press" Sunday wasting America's time talking to a political fixer, after which a panel of waxwork teevee creatures rolled their dead doll eyes Heavenward, praised Reagan, and got all gooey about Centrism.

More than anything else, Peggy Noonan wants you to know

that Barack Obama is a "President of the Left" who needs to "regain his mystique".

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Week after week, year after year, the ever-hungry media maw continues to prove two things:

1. The gap between content supply and content demand creates an ever-growing excess media capacity that media programmers could use to talk about virtually anything at all.


2. Most media owners and programmers would obviously rather chew their own legs off than air anything but the same verbal packing peanuts and endlessly re-chewed Conventional Wisdom Bubble Gum from the same few inbred insiders.

Lastly, for extra low-cost, happy-fun-good-times, during the year-end retrospectives with which you will be barraged over the next week, try substituting the factually-accurate phrase "Ignorant, Rage-Drunk Republican Base" every time you hear the fantasy-bullshit-alibi phrase "Tea Party" regurgitated by some fawning pundit and notice how cartoonishly ridiculous they actually sound. As an example, you could do worse than starting with the last two minutes of ”The Chris Matthews Show”.