Came yesterday a press release from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. (Nice lack of space, guys — really cool. “News Hour” would be Dudsville.) And it previewed the show’s election-night coverage: “Jim Lehrer anchors, with analysis from Mark Shields and David Brooks.”

And I was thinking how that would go: “She’s a cancer on the Republican party.” “No, she is really, really a cancer.” “Yeah, she is gangrene and cancer and gout all at once.” “She is the plague, out of medieval Wasilla!” “And conservatives are dopes who don’t read books.” “They’re afraid that, if they cracked open a book, they would realize that Obama’s The One!” “And . . .”

Sorry for laying it on a little thick. And let me give you a memory. I haven’t watched newsy television (if you know what I mean) in many years. But I remember Nightline from the 1990s. Their liberal commentator was George Stephanopoulos, and their “conservative” commentator was David Gergen. They had served together in the Clinton communications department.

All the views from A to B, as I believe Henry Kissinger once said.