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Mainstream-media political journalism is in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant, but not because of the Internet, or even Comedy Central. The threat comes from inside. It comes from journalists being afraid to do what journalists were put on this green earth to do.

I didn't think there would something that I would find as entertaining as John Stewart's epic smackdown of Jim Cramer last night, but I just came across this video of often-reasonable Fox News anchor Shepard Smith openly and ruthlessly mocking Glenn Beck throughout the day.

The government needs to legally mandate that this episode be played in every business school finance class and before the daily opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange.

Take a moment and think to yourself how CNBC and the other financial talking-head networks refer to The Market. Does it ever remind you of how priests talk about God or witchdoctors about the Angry Fire Spirit?

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Wednesday became the first governor to reject some of his state's share of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus money. Sanford's announcement came the same day as new unemployment data showed the state with the nation's second-highest jobless rate, at 10.4 percent!

Talking heads have already started to claim that Obama's healthcare plan will mean that care decisions will be taken out of the hands of doctors and patients and given to the government. People need to realize that this is wrong because such decisions are already out of the hands of doctors -- they're made by the insurance companies!

A nine-year-old girl is sexually abused by her stepfather over three years and then raped. She becomes pregnant with twins and a doctor performs an abortion:. The Catholic authorities immediately threaten to charge the girl's mother with homicide and excommunicate her. In fact, the archbishop declares her automatically excommunicated.