Senior Political Analyst

Being stuck at work yesterday, I was unable to watch the convention coverage on C-SPAN (where they let you watch the convention rather than talk over it) and had to resort to The Most Trusted Name in News. So Ted Kennedy gives his speech (with a stumble or two, but overall a good performance for the Liberal Lion), and CNN cuts to its Senior Political Analyst, Bill Schneider. Now, I've mentioned before that Schneider is an American Enterprise Institute fellow and a right-wing hack. But right now, let's focus on that title. Senior Political Analyst. Because this was the sum total of his ANALYSIS of Kennedy's speech:

BLITZER: Let's bring in our senior political analyst Bill Schneider. You watched the speech. You listened carefully. It was relatively speaking tough for this convention.

WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, SR. POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, it was. But let me point something out to you. Did you see or did you notice who was in the stands? One of the honored guests at this convention is Maria Shriver. She is a Kennedy. She will also be an honored guest at the Republican convention next month, because her husband is the governor of California, a Republican who will address the Republican convention, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She's one of the few people who's going to be an honored guest at the Democratic and the Republican convention. So Ronald Reagan is going to speak to this convention. Arnold Schwarzenegger with ties to the Kennedys will address the Republicans.

And the transcript doesn't do it justice. Schneider was gabbing on like he just spotted the original Chewbacca at ComiCon. I've got an idea, Senior Political Analyst: ANALYZE! What a tool. The news media is becoming more like the entertainment media every day.