Pennsylvania: MSM tells you what to think

The Pennsylvania Democratic primary is a simple thing: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) vs. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) People will vote for whichever candidate they prefer as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, the votes will be counted, and the candidate with the most votes will win.

Simple, yes? But look at today's MSM headlines:

• 8 Questions About The Pennsylvania Primary

(Dan Balz, Washinton Post)

• Five things to watch in Pennsylvania

(Carrie Budoff Brown & Kenneth P. Vogel, Politico)

• What to look for in the Pennsylvania primary

(Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times)

Readers are so stupid, the editors of The Washington Post believe, that you need tol read an 1,800-word Q&A by Dan Balz explaining to you the answers to such questions as, "Has the campaign weakened Obama or Clinton more for the general election?" and "What is Obama's biggest general-election vulnerability?"

Holy freaking crap, Dan! Your readers are capable of operating computers! These are people who have an interest in politics so keen that they're surfing around the Internet for news about a primary election instead of checking out the nude video of Penelope Cruz at Egotastic. We're talking stone-cold political junkies at this point, OK?

So why in the world do the editors of The Washington Post imagine that such readers need Dan Balz to tell them what to think about the Pennsylvania primary?

This insipid format of enumated questions, the bogus Q-and-A -- the reporter essentially interviewing himself -- is an insult to the reader's intelligence.