For All the Whos Down in Whoville

You know the scene: Cindy Lou Who asks the Grinch, "Santy Claus, why? Why are you taking our Christmas tree, why?" The Grinch, of course, lies, "I'm taking it home to my work shop, my dear. I'll fix it up there, then I'll bring it back here." The Narrator explains, "And his fib fooled the child. So he patted her head, he gave her a drink and he sent her to bed."

At least Cindy Lou Who - "who was no more than two" - had the good sense to challenge the Grinch with a question as he was stealing her tree, whereas, Poor Lynn Neary on Saturday's weekend edition never questions the utterly sleazy Newt Gingrich as he promotes himself as a visionary Republican man of "new ideas." Not once does Neary raise an objection to Gingrich's assertions, but instead gives him a friendly mike for the following:

• He touts his "Center for Health Transformation which is developing a totally new health based health reform approach to how we think about health reform in America." (That would be his "totally new" basic neoconservative, market-based health care reform.)
• He praises his "American Solutions, the organization which launched the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less petition drive...repealing the Sarbane-Oxley regulatory bill...moving towards a zero capital gains and 12% corporate income tax rate strategy for economic growth..." (Neary has nothing to say about the nonsense of Drill Here, Drill Now or any mention of Newt's anti-environmental agenda.)
• Gingrich claims that Democrats have an attitude toward business that tries "to harass it and destroy it."
• Of Detroit's demise, he blames "the current Democratic politics of Detroit [which] have been a disaster for the human beings..." (And I thought the history of Detroit was a bit more complicated).
• Gingrich claims he (and the new Republican party) will be "willing to go out and actually represent everyone everywhere." (Except for non-Christians and evil secularists).

Yes, little Cindy Lou Who showed some mettle in confronting the thief in front of her, while Neary not only didn't challenge the crooked Gingrinch, but helped him as he "crupt to the chimney and stuffed the tree up."