A surge?!

One of the most hilarious things about the McCain surge is the way the press pretends to be surprised about it--as if they hadn't been asking for weeks when the McCain surge they all wanted was going to happen. Evidence, I guess, that if the press wants a story badly enough, there'll be a story. Yesterday I watched CNN endlessly repeat the Hillary-crying video--the one in which Hillary Clinton didn't cry, but then the press said she did so she might as well have cried--and ask whether it was a sign of weakness or a sign of phoniness. Big story! And then they repeated their dispatch from Oklahoma, where a bunch of ideologically incongruous white men--like Chuck Hagel, Gary Hart, and Michael Bloomberg--had gathered to complain about feeling homeless in polarized America, and called it a big story. Big story! But it's not a big story, unless you really insist that it is.