Fair And Balanced

Can somebody please tell me what reason the Times had for giving Jindal this kind of random exposure upon Sebelius’s nomination today to head HHS and lead the Administration’s health care mission?

… I mean, a reason beyond some need to create equivalence between the Dems and the diminished GOP (the Sunday Magazine and the so-called “anti-Obama” as prominent case-in-point), or to play on celebrity politics, especially after Jindal bombed — and lied his way through — last week’s SOTU response?

(image 1: Bob Edmonds/AP. image 2: Nigel Parry for The New York Times)