Nattering nabobs of negativism

With apologies to William Safire for the blatant plagiarism of my subject line, I am officially sick to death of the political pundolts who have nothing better to due than endlessly parse every word that passes through our presidential candidates' lips in hopes of making them sound as if they are A) closeted members of the KKK, B) pinko commie bastards, C) wife-beating misogynists, or D) Al-Quaida loving Nazi sympathizers.

Because I'm sick of all this, I firmly refuse to reiterate the latest kerfluffle over comments Hillary Clinton made to the editorial board of the Argus Leader newspaper in South Dakota. Google it and read that crap somewhere else. All I will say is this: for every one of these supposed "missteps" that occurs, there are at least two possible ways to interpret a candidate's remarks - the obvious interpretation that has been slightly obscured by poor choice of words or the worst case scenario interpretation that no one in their right mind would attribute to an individual who is politically savvy enough to have survived this far in a difficult primary season. The fact that the mainstream press invariably chooses the latter of these two possible interpretations whenever possible demonstrates better than any other measure the lengths to which they will go to make up the news on an otherwise slow holiday weekend.

If that makes me a pinko commie bastard, I can handle it.