Our Broken Media - Cillizza Starbursts Edition

H/t to P.E.C., who had a similar reaction when she read once great Washington Post Kaplan Daily's Chris "The Lizard" Cillizza's largely star-bursty fare-thee-well to snowbilly grifter Sarah "Princess Dumbass of the North" Palin. The kicker quote that sums up Cillizza's assessment of Palin should get your digestive juices flowing:

"The Palin story is, in the end, one of tremendous talent misused. Like any number of playground greats who never make the NBA or, when they do, wind up disappointing, Palin had as much natural ability as anyone this side of Barack Obama or John Edwards, but was unable to translate that talent into results once the bright lights came on. That she never made good on her remarkable natural talents is a sign of how the political process can chew up and spit out those who aren’t ready for it." (our emphasis)

As brother Hackwhacker says,

"What great 'natural talent' of hers was wasted? Wearing clothes paid for by her PAC long into the future? I don't think she cracked a book or read a newspaper in years; even Fox's chief Roger Ailes called her 'stupid' behind her back (naturally). I've watched Cillizza on cable, and he always plays the game of saying something critical right before he lavishes praise. Guess he needs to keep people on both sides returning his phone calls."

At one point The Lizard asks what went wrong? His answer is the disastrous interview with Katie Couric, after which Palin started to blame the "lamestream media" for anything and everything wrong with the public's perception of her. Um, no, Lizard. What happened is that, after her initial introduction at the Rethuglican convention, the more people heard her "thoughts" on various issues, the less people thought of her as a viable national politician =cough=dumbass=cough=; she ceased being a novelty and began grating on the public (except for her dimbulb followers and the likes of The Lizard, apparently). She was and is an uninformed yahoo, to put it bluntly, and that was a reality no amount of handling could disguise.

To paraphrase the old saying, "If you can't say something truthful, don't say anything at all."

BONUS: Laughably, now that Princess Dumbass is fading from view, Cillizza has developed a man crush on... wait for it... phony deep thinker and creationist Gov. Bobby "Kenneth" Jindal. We think this bromance is going to end in the same tragic way as Cillizza's starbursts for Princess Dumbass (Cillizza, circa 2017: "In the end, the Jindal story is one of tremendous talent wasted...").