Barbaro-ians at the Gate

#3 had lamented about the MSM's overblown obsession with the injured race horse Barbaro despite the fact there was plenty of other real and important news to cover. Last night on The CBS Evening News the Barbaro story made a big comeback when they interviewed a friggin' veterinarian for at least 5 minutes about the race horse's impending surgery. 5 minutes of the 20 minutes of the evening news devoted to a horse's surgery. I should think a 5-second mention would have been generous. Now today the news comes that Barbaro has passed on to the great racetrack in the sky. Guess what news story tonight will crowd out things like deaths in Iraq, or Bush's new threats against Iran, or Congress' pursuit of a vote of no confidence in Bush's "surge", or corruption in Iraq contracts, or...?