Sideshow politics

The Loud, Cartoonish Blood Sport That?s Engorged MSNBC, Exhausted CNN?and Is Making Our Body Politic Delirious -- New York Magazine:

The game may be destroying American politics - but it's the only game in town, and CNN, thus far, is out of it.

That line right there pretty much sums up all seven pages of this article. CNN is losing ratings because they haven't taken that stand, at least not overtly. They've long been accused of being a bastion of the great "liberal media", what with their cadre of high-flying leftist orators like Wolf Blitzer and the silver-tongued Anderson Cooper, what a pair of firebrands.

MSNBC has taken the liberal mantra away, Fox has a monopoly on the conservative title, all that's left is for CNN to do what it's always done, stay in the news business. I think Elliot Spitzer (yeah, that Elliot Spitzer) said it best:

Being a passionate centrist is always a bit harder than a raving lunatic on each side,