CNBC's Monotone on the Monolines

Perhaps I was asleep at the switch, or daydreaming about a business media that did not portray every last CEO as a cross between Midas and Winston Churchill and every last GDP revision as a revelation, but I missed Thursday's rendition of what I'll call the "Charlie Chronicles."

Of course, there is the slim chance that it actually did not happen yesterday. That -- be still my beating heart -- CNBC's Charlie Gasparino did not take to the air at the appointed 3:30 p.m. EDT to declare an impending deal to bail out Ambac(ABK Quote), everyone's favorite failing bond insurer.

Breaking news? Broken record news might be more like it.

I half expect Charlie to interrupt this Business Press Maven report with more news of an impending deal, oops here it is: ...