Networks don't have the resources for that kind of painstaking investigatory journalism; CNN would have mentioned it, but ran short on time, because they were too busy running a graphic displaying Michael Jackson's one-month period of bodily decomposition.
Not really on that last one. They just didn't report it. I have to say "not really" because even as I wrote it I realized, "You know, this is not entirely far-fetched."
Hah! AmishDude tips a joke:
Q: What is DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDR?
A: A bipartisan corruption scandal in New Jersey.