How Will Cantor and Bachmann Top This Tomorrow?

During basketball practice in high school, the funnest team to be on was offense when Coach was focusing on team defense. You'd have complete carte-blanche to run and gun all you wanted; there was no ridiculous trying-to-be-Dr. J play you could try that he would even notice, as he was so focused on how the defense was playing.

Except, of course, Buuuuuuuuuuuuuf. One day during one of these sessions Buuuuf uncorked such a gawd-awful, "what the fuck?" shot that ended up in the hallway somewhere that Coach was stopped in mid-sentence and could only stare at Buuuuf for a minute before finally asking "are you alright? you're not driving yourself home, are you?"; this remained the one and only time any one of us saw Coach bother to question something the offense had done during these sessions.

Which is what I thought of when I saw this video featuring Jim DeMint. Whether or not you agree with what either guy has to say, the prompting of some drone from one of these news shows to actually follow up with "what the fuck are you talking about?" I think is the death-knell for any hopes one may have for a Republican congressman to appear in public and start talking without sounding like a complete fucking idiot. Hopefully more reporters will take this approach and insist that the people we've elected to run the country for us do more than read from Batshit Bazooka Joe Talking Points gum wrappers.

A while back I wrote this about the infamous Palin/Couric interviews (as well as the Laura Bush "Hubby isn't the WORST preznit ever" one):

Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Palin: I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
Couric: What, specifically?
Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.
Couric: Can you name a few?

I wasn't shocked that Palin came off as an idiot. But I was shocked that in today's journalistic world of letting interview subjects off the hook without really answering cause instead of actually listening you're simply reading the next question in your notecards over in your head, Couric actually kept after her for an answer. Which is what this reporter should've done with Mrs. Bush.