PRO WRESTLING IS MORE GENUINE.

Last Sunday, I had the car radio tuned to "Face the Nation," which began with a notorious segment involving deputy moderator Margaret Brennan and Wyoming Member of Congress Liz Cheney.

Ryan Saavedra (Daily Wire) and Tim Graham (News Busters) raised the protest flag.  "Cheney can't seem to complete a sentence half the time. How does Brennan think this doesn't make her and CBS look unfair and unbalanced?"  The show transcript, in case you want to do your own research.  The representative pushed back well.  In particular, I like this.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But, on Iran--

REPRESENTATIVE LIZ CHENEY: Listen, you just continue to sort of put these little points out there and then move on. And every time you do it you are making the point I am making. As Republicans we are focused on substance. We are focused on policy and we will continue to do that no matter what the mainstream media attempts to do.

MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. Unfortunately, now we don't have time to talk about Iran, but thank you very much--

REPRESENTATIVE LIZ CHENEY: Well you should have asked about Iran sooner because that's a policy issue.

That the moderators of the Sunday shows are frequently Democrat operatives with bylines is no surprise. Perhaps the push-back from that interview is just working the referee.  And, yes, I'm guilty of calling Chuck Todd a truculent chipmunk.  After further review, George Stephanopoulos is the ankle-biting chihuahua.  (If a reader can come up with a suitable floor-mop dog of Aegean extraction, that might be what I use instead.)

It occurs to me, though, that maybe the baiting of Republican guests, and the continued presence of Republican guests who know they are going to be treated badly by Democrat process-worshippers is for show.  Democrats might be Excessively Earnest People who know how to talk in acronyms.  That's no fun.  So, to build ratings, Republicans consent to go on, in order to fire up their base by talking about how badly the Drive-Bys behave.  Democrat moderators behave badly because to do otherwise would make the show as soporific as a Unitarian sermon, or anything on public radio on any morning.

The gentry who watch the Sunday shows might not be aficionados of pro wrestling.  But Milwaukee's own Reggie "Da Crusher" Lisowski might have the right judgement about political TV. "People make a joke out of it," he said of wrestling. "But it wasn't a joke to me. It was a living."  Political TV is just another form of entertainment in a ring, or a cage.  Kenny Jay taking on George Gadaski, as many falls as it takes, for ever and ever ...