In addition to excellent commentary in National Review, the Wall Street Journal and Investors Business Daily op-ed pages are calling for a full-blown investigation of the “Subprime Six,” those mostly Democratic friends of Countrywide who got sweetheart deals on mortgages. The local papers in Connecticut have paid attention to the Dodd angle of the story, but the rest of the media are yawning. Why? Oddly enough, the question is answered most succinctly by L.A. Times real-estate columnist Peter Viles:

Why the lack of media curiosity? My gut tells me the mainstream news media would have much more enthusiasm for the story if it had been broken by The New York Times and had begun with a sweetheart deal for a top campaign advisor to John McCain and had then spread to two Republican U.S. senators. That’s just my two cents.