False umbrage

Once again the news is full of false hubris. Cheney makes a crack about inbreeding in WV and Byrd gets so mad he has to go to the hospital. Clinton calls a reporter a scumbag. And everyone fakes shock, dismay and offense. And the next day the offender has to apologize. It isn't as if anyone is really offended, nor is anyone really sorry.

So this is what we're supposed to watch as news? What silly name somebody called somebody else?

But here's what's REALLY funny. Bill Clinton saying of that one reporter, "he's just a dishonest guy; [he] can't help it." My, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? Or as they say in Hungarian, "the owl telling the sparrow it has a big head."