Max Keiser, in his inimitable over-the-top style, has defined the method of malicious myth-making I’m always on about, using a financial metaphor for manipulating our shared narrative in favor of our MOTU (masters of the universe).

Believe it or not, there’s a lesson from comparative mythology that I believe is informing the method in their madness, and it’s called, The Secret of the Two Partners. It’s an ancient Egyptian principle of pharaohnic rule. And it goes like this (cue the fade out to the sands of Abydos, c. 2,800 BC…) I’m not suggesting this is a playbook, but I am suggesting that the decades of Joseph Campbell’s lectures for the State Department didn’t go unnoticed.

Sen. McCaskill’s casino analogy revealed the blind spot of the Goldies: they’re pretending they aren’t involved, that they’re the perfect embodiment of objectivity itself, when we can all see them standing there with their hands in Lady Liberty’s honey pot.

Homeland

In the dogs-and-cats-living-together department, there isn’t much more startling than FireDogLake founder Jane Hamsher on CSPAN Thanksgiving morning asking South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint and Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning to put a hold on Ben Bernanke’s re-nomination to head the Fed. Will Chris Dodd push for a GAO audit of the Federal Reserve to clear a hold?