For those of you who missed CNN's Reliable Sources yesterday, you missed some pretty amazing unintentional humor.

Host Howie Kurtz welcomed "investigative author" Diane Dimond and Baltimore Sun's television critic, David Zurawik, to comment on the over-proliferation of Anna Nicole Smith coverage by talking about…Anna Nicole Smith.

And, while the panel generally found the "All Anna, All The Time" approach to be rather excessive,** the kicker was surely when Dimond pointed out that this would "never have happened" if someone extremely unpopular had died instead. Like, for example, unattractive social pariah, Dick Cheney.

Here's an excerpt:

DIMOND: And you know what, Howie? If a less popular person died, and it wasn't Anna Nicole, the sexpot — say it was Dick Cheney. I guarantee you he would not get five straight hours of coverage on MSNBC or a full hour on "20/20." So…

Aw, c'mon, Dick deserves at least two hours of coverage, right? Two and half, if we're including Darrell Hammond's SNL parodies and The Daily Show's incessant jokes about that lawyer Cheney shot in the face.

**particularly MSNBC's decision to spend five straight hours on the Anna Nicole media circus, as opposed to, say, the every-growing potential of a war with Iran.