Fox News’s Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett gives the full scoop on the White House war with Fox. He says he has to fight and claw for every story he gets, because the White House gives him nothing. In some respects this is good, according to Garrett, because he never has to worry that he’s being seduced or manipulated by this White House.

Two paragraphs from a Wes Pruden piece in thr Washington Times about the Virginia governor race: “This is one Mr. Deeds who apparently isn’t going to town. The collapse of the Democratic campaign for governor of Virginia speaks volumes – chapters, anyway – about what the body politic is trying to tell Barack Obama’s Democrats. “They’re learning, painfully, that campaigning without George W. Bush is baffling, frustrating and scary. Worse, it offers a preview of what the congressional campaigning will be like next year.

van-i-ty: 1. excessive pride in one’s appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, 2. lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness: the vanity of a selfish life . 3. something worthless, trivial, or pointless. This explains how well-named Vanity Fair magazine really is. Considering that they recently decided to send Sean “Spicoli” Penn down to Cuba to write a fawning, worshipful paean to the murderous dictator Fidel Castro , who has enslaved and impoverished his people, thrown journalists in prison, and AIDS patients into concentration camps.