From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

On Wednesday, the 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction

failed to reach an agreement in advance of their Thanksgiving week deadline.

The so-called Super Committee of six Republicans and six Democrats was created last

summer to cut the deficit by more than a trillion dollars. It had just a few months to get the job

done or else automatic cuts would be triggered, including a big chunk out of the Pentagon's

budget. Most of the media saw the inability to reach an agreement as a colossal failure.

Well, if President Obama thought that by avoiding being directly involved in the supercommittees' negotiations,

he would avoid being blamed for any superfail, well, he was wrong.

The deficit's supercommittee ended in a super failure.

The supercommittee's super failure leaves the country facing more than a trillion dollars and painful across the board cuts.

Hi, Bill O'Reilly.

Thanks for watching us tonight.

Congress insults the American people.

That is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.

It's really embarrassing.

Really embarrassing.

But according to New York

magazine politics writer Jonathan Chait, the Super Committee was not a failure at all. It successfully

accomplished, he says, exactly what it was created for. Which would get us out of the debt ceiling

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