Another Milepost On The Road To Oblivion

As Digby notes, Politico has so far done eighty-four stories on this year's White House Correspondents Dinner Village Nerdprom '10.

This year for some reason was the giddiest I've ever seen the press act publicly about this thing. (For all I know they always behave like fools in private over the stupid thing.) The fans of teen dream Justin Bieber --- who attended by the way --- actually behaved in a much more restrained manner.

The DC press should be embarrassed to be seen by the whole world as giggling school girls but they aren't. They actually think people like this stuff --- they covered it like it was the Oscars and they were the stars. But what Michael Getler says is correct; it's just another way in which they are eroding people's trust in journalism. But then sometimes I think that's the Politico's real mission.

Gotta love that high school echo chamber action.  The Most Important People On Earth get to tell you that they are the Most Important People On Earth.  Even the President has to come and sing and dance for the Gong Show judges that, after all, get to judge the President of the United States on everything he does.  They create the reality of Washington that you read daily.

Our White House press corps have officially been reduced to the gods of high school.  The world literally revolves around them.  And they'll never let  you ever forget it.

Outside that bubble or course the rest of us are either laughing or moaning in disgust.  But they're not even pretending anymore.