We regret to inform you that the journos are at it again, doing their best to focus the national conversation on where all beltway scribblers and CNN hosts agree it belongs: themselves.

It was the grande dame of Washington socialites, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who popularized the invitation: “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.”

In the capital city today, that sentiment abounds regarding the all-consuming narcissism of Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza, journalist-cum-socialites who make Tom and Daisy Buchanan look like Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver.

Christmas came early for Washington gossips these last two weeks, when they received a scandalous gift to liven up their frightfully dull holiday shindigs: the running saga of Nuzzi and Lizza, two accomplished political writers who just can’t shut up about themselves.

The members of the Washington press corps love nothing more than to wrap themselves in the flag, proclaiming their essential role in a free democracy and comparing themselves to firefighters rushing into a fire.

But a more accurate portrayal would depict them standing nose to phone in a ball of enclosed plastic, demonstrating their bubble-headed self-absorption and abiding determination to ignore the real world around them.

No one better holds a mirror up to Washington’s undefeated self-obsession than Nuzzi and Lizza. 

The recriminative details of the pair’s........

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