A news anchor's Paris-related meltdown

There’s excrement, and now there’s new, improved, Meta-Excrement®, crap that discusses just how crappy it is. Exhibit A: MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski went nuclear on the ridiculous Paris Hilton coverage early this morning, trying to set fire to her script, then sticking it through a nearby shredder.

“I’m about to snap,” she declared, while being egged on by Joe Scarborough, who took a copy of the script she had torn in pieces and inhaled deeply from it.

Hotel heiress Ms. Hilton, whose inheritance is estimated to be between $30-$50 million, has appeared on a reality show, in an online sex tape and as a bit player in low-budget horror films. When released from jail early Tuesday morning, cable news networks broadcast it live and her SUV was chased by scores of rabid paparazzi, all getting the same blurry, unrevealing images. Can anyone explain how that first sentence dovetails into the second?

Management has refused to spring me from my duties watching Hilton dissemble to a Mr. Larry King this evening. CNN’s Los Angeles studios are on Sunset Blvd., near Amoeba Records, where Paul McCartney will be performing a free concert this evening. Between Paris’ camera-wielding stalkers and Paul’s fans, one can only imagine gridlock this evening at Sunset and Cahuenga on a Biblical scale.