The miners have been rescued. This is great news, of course, but like so many events, the story about the rescue became more important than the rescue. The governor of Pennsylvania apparently forgot that the operation was about the miners and not about him. "This is how I see my role," he announced to assembled news reporters. Then he went on to describe how he had climbed into a capsule so he could get a feel for the conditions the miners had to face. Who could possibly care what kind of feel the governor had?

Geraldo cared. Calling him "the Guiliani of the mine disaster," he gushed about the governor's leadership, and news televison quickly turned into all-mining accident-all-the-time.

Of course, some of us don't consider a comparison with Rudy Guiliani to be a compliment.