"What really draws me to the notion of Caroline (Kennedy) as senator, though, is the modern-fairy-tale quality of it all. ... Caroline has always been part of my consciousness: The lucky little girl with a pony and an impossibly handsome father. ... In this fairy tale, Caroline is our tragic national princess...."   So gushes Ruth Marcus, the hard-as-nails political scribbler for the Washington Post, even as the circulation of the Washington Post continues to slide. But the WaPo is still the company paper in a one-company town. Ms. Marcus isn't just waltzing on the deck as the ship tilts and the deck furniture begins to slide. She is playing "My Little Pony" on the front page, as a substitute for adult analysis about Caroline Kennedy for Senator from New York, a job for which her previous life as Little Princess of the Kennedy Clan has obviously qualified her. Nothing could better prove the bottomless triviality of the liberal media as they say...(Read Full Post)