Is This Really One of the Leading Stories of the Weekend?

If you click on the link in the title of this post, you will see that CNN, along with other major media organizations, is devoting extensive coverage to DNC Chair Howard Dean's recent remarks about Republicans. Now it's not my intent to defend those statements. But I do want to ask whether Dean's statements about Republicans are really one of the leading stories of the weekend.

Reality check time, people. The Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House. Seven of nine Supreme Court justices were nominated by Republican presidents (not that you'd know that from GOP criticisms of "judicial activism"). A majority of lower court judges were appointed by Republican presidents. And I think that a majority of governors are also Republicans.

At this point in time, the Democrats are not news. Especially not the head of the DNC, this far out from a national election. Dean just doesn't have that much power . . . .

There was a time when the media allegedly played a "watchdog" role, keeping in check the powerful. Now, apparently, their role is to keep tabs on what the relatively powerless say, to rooms full of partisan supporters, and then to ask--as I saw on a morning talk show--whether those statements are good for the Democratic party. Oh. Is that why they're so concerned?

Update (June 6, 8 am): Still a story Monday morning . . . .

Update update: The ever gutless Joe Biden's criticisms of Dean were covered on the NBC Nightly News tonite, June 6. Good work, folks (Andrea Mitchell, that centerfold of liberal media bias). I'm sure all the real news of the day was covered in the rest of the telecast--the Aruba disappearing blonde girl, the Michael Jackson trial, and maybe one last story on the runaway bride, and, of course, the damage that Howard Dean is doing to the gutless party of Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Joe-mentum . . . .