DarkSyde makes some good observations about our broken political system, and the equally shattered “journalist” enablers:

It doesn't matter if it's apologists defending the latest incomprehensible Republican screw-up or Bush's schizophrenic immigration policy. The MO is predictably the same. Some right wing Bozo comes out on a carefully managed stage with a spiel so ridiculous that it would really be more appropriate if presented by a guy pedaling a unicycle and juggling GOP talking points to circus music in full clown regalia, while a mini-Karl Rove chatters around grinding an organ and holding out a cup. It doesn't matter if the clown falls off his unicycle over and over and drops all the talking points. Someone stage right-wing will throw him new talking points to juggle, and he'll just pretend they're the same ones he started with. It doesn't matter if the clown kills a few audience members in the process or sets the big tent on fire. None of that will be mentioned and the reviews will be rave.

Traditional media is apparently still suffering under the misunderstanding that the WH clowns and the GOP monkeys hold any allure for the ticket buying public, and the pundits will even help keep the audience distracted when plates fall and pretend that any cluster-fuck is actually all part of that great show. Few talking heads will mention that it's the same show from last week, last month, last year. Hardly a one of them will question why, almost five years after 9-11, we're just now talking seriously about controlling our borders. In fact they'll all clap furiously at the clown show because if they give the clown bad reviews, the circus might not give them back-tent access to the performers. And then they might have to actually engage in, you know, journalism and reporting.

People like Tweety Matthews, Little Timmy Russert, and George Stephanopoulis initially made their reputation as political insiders. They got very very lucky and scored big with the TV thing, and can’t be bothered actually examining issues, because the money is just too good, and they don’t want to rock the boat. A dispassionate observer who watched these shows over a period of time would be brain-dead not to have noticed that Republicans invariably get a pass, and get handed softball questions, while Progressives, Liberals, and Democrats (with the exception of Republican-made-men like Lieberman and Biden,) get dragged over the coals.

A cynical man would wonder where these enablers get the money to afford their luxurious lifestyle. They just can't get all their money just from the media employers.