As another day of the Chris Dodd “I didn’t realize VIP meant Special” tour rolls on, Connecticut’s news media continues to prove itself as a rather incurious bunch for the most part (thank you Jesse Hamilton).  Yes, there have been blips here and there, but as many Republicans have said to one another, “if this were a Republican Senator instead of a Democrat, there would be a lynch mob forming.”

It isn’t suppose to be this way.  Out on the high plains of North Dakota, the other Democrat Senator involved, Sen. Kent Conrad, woke up to a fireball of an editorial in Bismarck’s big paper, the Bismarck Tribune.  The headline pretty much says it all: “Conrad: Get loans like anyone else does“.  Not a lot of ‘gray area’ in that one – but the paper’s editors aren’t any nicer in the text of the piece.

Someone with the financial smarts of Kent Conrad should have known what the prevailing interest rate was for an ordinary borrower and that he was getting a deal. It’s on Countrywide that it seems to have bent its own rules to finance the commercial unit buyout, but still it’s connected with Conrad’s name.

He should be forthcoming, now and throughout the lifespan of this mess.

The people of Connecticut are doing their part and writing letters to the editor about VIP-gate, and now it’s time for the “Fourth Estate” to show a little inquisitiveness.