The images of the jewels that the UDEF found inside Zapatero's safe stimulated the humorous audacity of Spanish morning magazines and news programs. Nothing like excess and surprise in the midst of the tedium of judicial cases for television stars to exhibit their wit. The photographs of exuberant pieces encrusted with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires, captured under the coldness of police camera flashes, activated the creativity of screenwriters. Susanna Griso, on Espejo público, was the least sharp: “If this were a thriller, we could title it The Treasure of Zapatero”. She could also have made more of an effort when evaluating all those samples, which she limited herself to considering “worthy of an empress”. In the ranking of journalistic ploys, Griso was rather bland. The presenter moves better in the realm of speculation, which is where she makes a difference with subtle insinuations. When she interviewed the general secretary of the Guild of Jewelers of Madrid, she asked him if, judging by the design of those pieces, he could deduce whether they had been manufactured in the United Arab Emirates or could come from a wealthy family from Latin America. The presenter's journalistic nose shines like a Swarovski in a shop window. On Antena 3 noticias, Sandra Golpe opened the news report with images of jewelry accompanied by the soundtrack of the film Breakfast at Tiffany's. Classics never fail. And she finished by recalling a quote from a Zapatero rally: "Being a socialist means having very little and being willing to give a lot". In the morning calculator game, Golpe found an appraiser who estimated the total value of the treasure at ten million euros.But the award for the most corrosive analyst of the day went to Ana Rosa Quintana, who has become a revelation comedian. A raw diamond of stand-up comedy. Her morning monologues are vitamins against indifference. “From the rose to the Rolex”, she stated as soon as the program began, appealing to the socialist symbol. “Legend has it that when the archaeologist Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun's tomb, he was not as surprised as the UDEF agents when they opened Zapatero's safe”. She imagined how they were dazzled by that “treasure worthy of the Count of Monte Cristo”. Quintana poked the wound: “It turns out that the workers' struggle was a Cartier catalog”, she concluded with sarcasm worthy of a reactionary rapper. The presenter did some prospecting, looking for archive images of Sonsoles Espinosa to see what kind of trinkets she used to wear: “Most of it was costume jewelry, which fits her style very well”, Quintana blurted out in an exhibition of subliminal cruelty typical of a meeting of the nouveau riche.The splendor of jewelry sharpens cunning. Breakfast with diamonds and laundry with sapphires. While awaiting the experts' verdict on the purity of all the gemstones, we will always have the pearls of the morning stars.