The Times can't find enough ways to cover Pelosi's "blunder"

I know it's Thanksgiving and I should be thinking only good thoughts while sitting in the bosom of Madam Cura's family, but like the cranky ol' uncle I am, I can't keep my ire over media inanity to myself. Let the dinner table erupt!

Not content to beat the Pelosi/Murtha leadership loss into the ground, with endless reports on ther failure of Pelosi's first "leadership test" -- a test, according to many in the press, that all of America watched intently -- the Times looks for more angles in which to cover this meaningless and mundane story. Today's angle appears in the "Style" section. Yes, that's the Time's weekly fashion page.

So, You Messed Up. Deal With It. Now.
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM

NANCY PELOSI, soon to become the speaker of the House of Representatives, did something recently that plenty of working Americans have done: she made a blunder on the job.

After pushing for an ally, John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, to be made majority leader, despite questions about his ethics, she was rebuffed by fellow Democrats last week, who elected her longtime rival Steny Hoyer of Maryland instead.

Even though Ms. Pelosi will soon be one of the country’s most powerful leaders, and the politics of her workplace are on a national scale, her predicament has parallels to the lives of everyday executives who fumble a big opportunity. But when anyone, be it a public figure or a private citizen, suffers a setback in the workplace, can he or she ever really recover?

Does it ever end. No.

Which is why Party leaders such as Pelosi can't let this pass. They need to stop giving the impression with their silence that they agree with the press's assessment that, yes, the party is a mess of disunity, power struggles, and animosity, while their opponents are obviously a serenely unified bunch. A unified bunch that resurrected our favorite living Dixiecrat, electing him by one vote to Minority Whip (and thank you, Jon Stewart, for pointing out the exquisite irony in that).

Members of the so-called (by the mouth breathers on radio...and the president) "Democrat" Party need to start combatting this bullshit. And fast.