Your new Asshat winner.........the media

It would have seemed early in the week that Jennifer Nowak would be our Asshat this week. The story certainly had all of the requisite parts to it, but along came the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Sure it would be easy to dogpile on Anna, and part of this blog will do just that, but the winner of the Asshat of the Week is not Anna Nicole Smith, but the mainstream media's treatment of her death. From the breaking news conference on all three major news networks (Fox, MSNBC, CNN) to the followup 24/7 coverage of who her baby's dady is and who is living in the mansion, the career restrospective and who will get the inheritance money, the media tripped all over themselves following this debacle as only they can. Let's not kid ourselves here, this wasn't the death of a Nobel Prize winner, or a former head of state, this was a woman whose major claim to fame was flashing her tits and lying on her back for an old man for cash. That's it, nothing more. The idea that this should somehow consume our every waking moment is ludicrous. Kudos to the Cafferty File on CNN, when after answering a viewer email, Cafferty threw it back to Wolf Blitzer with the question "Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?' He gets it. The media has made absolute fools of themselves chasing this non story for as long as they have, and if anyone is Asshat worthy this week, they most certainly are.