So I printed out the Greenspan/Paulson transcript from Meet the Press that Elliot sent me, and I go down to the local bar for dinner. After a while, the nice lady serving me comes over and asks, "What are you reading?

"I’m reading the transcripts for Meet the Press."

"What’s that? I never heard of that."

I stared at her for a moment. A tear starts to trickle down my cheek. OMG. A virgin. A genuine political virgin, I’m thinking. She has no idea how completely screwed we are.

She says, "Is that something I’m supposed to know about??"

"Well," I said. "Have you ever heard of Disneyland?"

"Yes."

"Well, Meet the Press is this television news interview show that’s been around since before Disneyland."

"Wow."

"Yes. So the next time you’re in Disneyland, think to yourself, ‘I’ve now done this; next time I’m going to watch Meet the Press.’"

"I’ll do that." I think she was sincere, but then I started to feel bad.

I didn’t have the heart to tell her Walt is dead, Mickey and Minnie did not have a traditional marriage, and David Gregory is an idiot.

As I’m having this conversation, I’m thinking, there’s no point jumping out the window, because of the bush, but if I get the axe out of the trunk and first cut down the bush, and then plant some bamboo spikes in the ground . . . but then I realize the ground is frozen and it would take a lot of effort out in the cold to dig the holes for the spikes, and besides, I don’t have any bamboo, so I just forgot the whole thing.

The transcript shows that David Gregory interviewed Paulson and Greenspan, after he had just finished an interview with security adviser John Brennan about how the US Justice system treats people who are a menace to the country, yet he never once asked Paulson and Greenspan whether they were read their Miranda rights or whether they should have been taken to an undisclosed location for enhanced interrogation to learn how many others at Goldman and the government might still be involved in inflicting so much misery and suffering on the country . . . and why are these guys out on their own recognizance? Surely Obama deserves criticism for that.

P.S. I don’t want to leave the impression that Gregory didn’t ask any questions. He asked his guests whether they thought the Obama Administration was doing enough to rebuild the financial system they allowed to wreck the economy, whether Obama’s proposals could ever bring back the millions of jobs their policies helped destroy, whether the President was doing enough to bring down the massive deficits they created when they were in charge. You could tell David spends a lot of time thinking about these things. The proof is here.