"WWTT"...WTF!!! Jerry and Joe Long | Bio

It's nice that Luke Russert can cash a paycheck from NBC. Nepotism among the Beltway whores is a time honored tradition which should not be confined to the likes of the cretinous Cokie Roberts.

But to witness Brian Williams chat with Luke just now on MSNBC and hear him wistfully intone how "we're all playing the parlor game WWTT, What Would Tim Think, what would he say, what would he do..." is taking grief over Dick Cheney's safest "journalist" going to the big suck-up studio in the sky, just a touch too far.

Let's put aside that Brian never asked himself WDILMASPP (Why Did I Let Military Analysts Spout Pentagon Propaganda) or that through their passive stenography Brian and Tim et al. helped lose quite a few fathers and mothers whose children won't be getting NBC paychecks.

What would Tim think? Gee Brian that's a toughy...he'd probably think what you think and Stephanopoulos thinks and Gibson thinks and Brokaw thinks and Couric thinks and Blitzer thinks...you know...somewhere safely inside the parameters of debate. Maybe for divergent views there'd be a round-table with David Broder drooling fossilized idiocy and Jon Meacham spouting biblical idiocy and Matalin and Carville encapsulating idiocy at the genetic level.

Meanwhile, Richard Cohen likes the Joe Biden pick because he saw John McCain dance with Jill Biden "on the terrace of the sublime Villa d'Este on the shore of Italy's stunning Lake Como." If Hunter Thompson were alive he would kill himself again.