Incuriosity and ignorance among those in the Mainstream Media is frustrating at best, infuriating often, and pernicious in the body politic.

Just watching the Sunday morning palavers can lead one to distraction.  Fox News contributor Juan Williams faulted Republicans, for example, for the failure of the Bush Administration 2007 immigration bill to leave the Senate. Never mind that one third of Democrat senators opposed the bill in a Democrat controlled body.  Instead, Juan should celebrate “bipartisanship” as his Messiah, Mr. Obama does if he picks off as few as one Republican in pursuit of his manifesto.

If Juan’s “performance” isn’t pitiful enough, one needs only to watch Howard Fineman, lick-spittle for all things Democrat, who declared on Chris Matthew’s show – yes, several of us watched so you don’t have to – that Richard Nixon was the cause of our involvement in the Vietnam conflict. Fineman is apparently channeling John Kerry, the Senior Senator from Massachusetts who looks French and “famously” served in that “war” and who declared participation in a covert operation in a non-combatant country (since discredited) allegedly ordered by President Nixon in December, 1968 more than a month before there was a President Nixon!

For the record Mr. Fineman, U.S. involvement in Vietnam began under John Fitzgerald Kennedy (D. MA) and escalated under Lyndon Baines Johnson (D. TX) and was inherited by Mr. Nixon seven years after its launch.