How’s this for an example of “world class reporting” by one of the members of “the best political team on television”, a standard-bearer of “the most trusted name in news”:

Lou Dobbs, for example, has been getting increasingly nutty as the year progresses, and this week he lashed out at Howard Dean. “I thought we had gotten rid of this left-wing pest for a while,” Dobbs said of the former Vermont governor. “But I guess he is just resurgent…. He’s a bloodsucking leftist. I mean, you gotta put a stake through his heart to stop this guy.”

Perhaps, Dobbs, full of helpless self-revulsion, unconsciously begging to be stopped, is really just telling CNN what they need to do in order to stop him from continuing to pollute the airwaves?