The cacophony of poison dwarfs on the MSNBC plantation.

The possibility of hearing any sort of alternative views - which is to say liberal views - on any of the cable news networks seems to have taken a further hit this week. Chris Matthews - who worked for President Carter and Tip O'Neill during the Jurassic period - proved himself to be the king of the poison dwarfs by comparing bin Laden to Michael Moore. Then implying that bin Laden was taking his talking points from John Kerry. His chattering vitriol is so anathema to any reasonable person that Americablog threw down the gauntlet - thank God.

Other than Countdown the entire line up on MSNBC is a cacophony of poison dwarfs. Some ex GOP congressman has a show in which he talks "common sense". Which is code for angry daddy schtick. Tucker Carlson has a program which is unbearably smug and tilts to the Right, when it is not tilting toward nonsense. And, the queen of the idiots - Rita Cosby (an unexplained phenomenon, like Big Foot) needs a 12 step program - her obsession with a kidnapping in Aruba and a groom missing from a cruise liner is so uncontrollable. Hmm? Called what? Frothing Dribble Anonymous.

I ADMIT I AM POWERLESS OVER REPORTING ON PRETTY YOUNG WHITE PEOPLE WHO MEET UNTIMELY ENDS...

Not that CNN is any better. Dobbs's version of "common sense" often has some basis in reality. But one best not mention anything about America actually needing brown people to pick the lettuce - he short circuits. The Situation Room was taken whole from the second act of the film Network. Anderson is fine - to look at anyway - just don't expect to find out much about the world. And Paula Zahn lead tonight with a story about an argument over a horse. Nuff Said.

I do not think a liberal point of view should be prevalent - but it should be at least present.

Here is what was not covered just today - one day - 1. The Democrats held hearings in which a bevy of well respected folks stated without reservation that Bush and the NSA broke the law. 2. The Dow fell 213 points. 3. Oil went and stayed above 68 dollars a barrel. 4. Iran started dumping Euros. Oh, and did you know they intend to STOP trading oil in dollars sometime in March. Prolly not. Potential catastrophe for the dollar not being as important as what Hillary called what.

The Democrats as real opposition are a non starter. The sooner we give up on them the better. 6 years is long enough to wait for a coherent message. And now the media - at least the TV part - is just another part of the Rove plantation. Somebody needs to do something.