From a post at Daily Kos:

There is a profound lesson to be taken from Orangejuicegate, or Bowlinggate, or Bittergate, and that lesson is that the guardians of our discourse are, at heart, idiots. There is no other explanation or redemption. Anyone attempting to draw out character definition from a glass of orange juice is, at heart, someone who has entirely run out of insightful things to say. Anyone attempting to make the case that a bowling score represents the measure of a man deserves to be basted, roasted, and served to whatever imbecile of a president does manage to rise to the top of their addled internal scoresheet.

At the same time, I think the appropriate response to this is not to get too angry and pretend to seriously rebut any of this, but to simply recognize it as a function of a deeply embarrassing and inept media environment, and, well... make fun of them. Repeatedly. That is what passes for analysis, as the world decays around us?

Because it should be nothing short of hilarious that, just as usual, orange juice and bowling are stories that titillate our "experts", but torture approved at the highest levels of government is not. If only the government response to Katrina demonstrated half as much as the clothing a candidate wears to an event; now that would be something. If only the measure of our current president was taken a tenth as carefully as that of our current candidates; but no, that would be unpatriotic.

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