"but if you did without the arrogance, I'd be more inclined to comment. Or even, if you actually made a comment that wasn't in reference to the media, I'd be more likely to comment. "

Good point.
Tom, here is what you could say:
The real news didn't talk about this very much because it's not actually news, but if you have some time to waste, you might want to look over some of these scraps of information which only anally obsessive and complusive people might manage to find tolerable to waste any time reading.
Or
Warning: This is not really news worth printing, but since there so much space available on the web, this helps fill in some of the infinite space.
Or
Some guy thinks good news about Iraq needs to be pasted in his Blog space for some crazy reason. Here's his lastest assortment of war propaganda which has managed to so damage him that he imagines that the war in Iraq is not an oil run of our nazis president- who illegally rigged our last two elections and who is secertly planning a global nuclear war in order to be about the end of days.

I think the third one is the charm as far as saying something calming and second one scores well for terseness.