The Incredible Shallowness Of The Media’s Political Analysis

Commentary
By Jamison Foser

For a group of people who get paid to cover politics (and who regularly forgo serious policy coverage in favor of political analysis), reporters can be remarkably shallow — inept, even — in their assessments.

For example, we need only to look back at Mark Halperin’s 2006 declaration that the Democrats should be "scared to death about November’s elections" or The Note’s insistence that Iraq looked like a "2006 political…