NBC’s “Today” devoted an interview segment this morning on the Dover caskets issue, with conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham (what? and break the Only Hagel and McCain Rule?) and ultraliberal Rep. Jim McDermott. Graham stuck narrowly to the issue that the families are distraught enough without seeing their loved one’s casket become a propaganda vehicle, and without feeling the pressure to travel to Delaware instead of waiting at home. Katie asked McDermott how much these pictures affected the Vietnam War. She did not ask: why would any American be eager to transform this war into another Vietnam?

“Today” hasn’t found the time for an interview segment about John Kerry’s mysterious first Purple Heart, at least as mysterious as Bush’s service records, an obsession for two weeks in February.