Stop Blabbing About Things That Actually Happened, Media.

This, from RudePundit:

By the standards of the current crop of Republican candidates, Ted Bundy, if still alive, could run for office. Sure, sure, Bundy murdered dozens of young women and was one of the most notorious serial killers in American history, but he was a loyal Republican, even engaging in dirty tricks to help the re-election campaign of Washington Governor Daniel Evans in 1972. And if Bundy was running now and some pesky reporter asked him, say, "Howzabout all that raping and bludgeoning?" he could call it a "personal attack" and add, "We've drawn a line in the sand. You can ask me about background, you can ask me about personal issues. I'm not going to answer."

No kidding. I thought the same thing when I somehow ended up paging through The Doormat to Hotel Guests Throughout the Nation, and saw this blurb in a story about Carl Paladino's recent pandering to the Jewish Taliban a "group of Orthodox Jewish leaders" with some particularly ugly anti-gay remarks:

Jul Thompson, chief administrator of TEA New York, a Tea Party group that supports Paladino, said the multimillionaire developer from Buffalo won't lose any supporters based on his comments on homosexuality. "These are just distractions," Thompson said. "I don't fault Mr. Paladino for it. I fault the media for making an issue out of it."

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Age of Idiocy. Up is officially down.

Oh, heavens no, I don't fault Mr. Paladino for saying something hideous - why on earth would anyone do that? I fault the media for sort of doing their job and reporting it "making an issue out of it".

When will that durned librul media learn? Rule #1 (for them as it is for Democrats): Never, ever, hurt Republicans' delicate fee-fees. Don't they know they only exist to provide free air time for politicians to vomit up their current talking points and focus-group approved version of reality?