When Face the Nation doesn’t

FOTP News in Review for … November 24, 2019

As Jane Wagner (or Lily Tomlin) once said, “No matter how much your mind gets boggled, it’s never enough to prevent future boggling.”

Or something like that.

Over at the Face the Nation on Sunday, someone, I’m assuming its host, Margaret Brennan, actually decided the best way to lead off the show was not by focusing on this past week’s impeachment inquiry into the president, not with the continued sycophantic embrace of him by the GOP, not with the mounting evidence of presidential misconduct, not with the astonishing level of deceit, mendacity, and ineptitude in, near, and around this administration, not with the steely testimony of Fiona Hill, not with the courageous testimony of Marie Yovanovitch, not even with the What the hell was going on there? testimony of Gordon Sondland.

Nope.

Rather, someone, evidently, said to him or herself, “Him or herself, the big story of the week is clearly that Michael Bloomberg, former NYC mayor and really, really rich guy, has decided to enter the Democratic race for president. We need to talk to an expert about this. I wonder if we could get Kellyanne Conway to come on the show? Nah, what are the chances she’d do it.”