But it's not just politicians who were big losers. Mark Davis, local talk radio host and regular Dallas Morning News columnist, came away from the elections looking both partisan and dead wrong. He stubbornly stuck to his predictions that Republicans would hold onto both the House and Senate long after everyone else except Karl Rove, George W. Bush, wife Laura and dog Barney were acknowledging that the House was lost and just maybe the Senate, too. It's one thing for a party leader to stare into a camera and, with a straight face, lie about his party's election chances. It's another thing for a professional journalist to do it.
Mark Davis, Republican shill to the end, emceed the President's election-eve rally at Reunion Arena in Dallas. A fitting site perhaps. Now that the Mavericks and Stars have decamped for shiny new American Airlines Center, Reunion sits on the edge of downtown waiting to be torn down. On Monday evening, Republicans sat inside waiting for their own demolition. Sharon Grigsby, a Dallas Morning News editorial board member, described Mr Davis's responsibilities at the gig as "working a crowd up into a kind of frenzy". She called him an "entertainer". This from an editorial board member of a newspaper that gives Mr Davis prime newspaper real estate on the op-ed page. Space that Mr Davis uses to pimp for Republicans rather than enlighten readers on issues of the day. For anyone paying attention this election, Mr Davis discarded whatever shred of credibility he may have still clung to before the votes were counted. It's time The Dallas Morning News made him pay for his column space like any other political ad.
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