Maggie's Funny Farm

Margaret Carlson is campaigning hard for Whore Of The Year. On today's Capital Gang, Carlson presented a fawning interview with Senator Fred Thompson, in which she grilled Thompson with such hard-hitting questions as "Why are you leaving us?" Carlson also bestowed the following undeserved honorifics on Thompson: moderate, reasonable, "the go-to guy for Democrats," independent, maverick.

Anyone with a brain larger than the size of a walnut will recall that Thompson was the chair of one of the most partisan
-- and worthless -- investigations in American political history: The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee campaign finance reform investigation. Thompson also was the champion of that discredited criminal and Richard Mellon Scaife employee, David Hale. It's obvious that Carlson pays more attention to Law and Order reruns than the national political scene she is paid to cover.