Politician's pratfalls have always been the subject of political commentary. Remember Gerald Ford's propensity for bumping into things? What's revealing - about the media - is the way the media runs with these things.
When John Kerry fell down during his skiing vacation he blamed his fall on a Secret Service Agent assigned to protect him, calling him an SOB in the process. Rather ungracious, I thought; and rather revealing. I didn't see it in the Virginian Pilot. John Kerry follows this with a spill from his $6,000 racing bike. Nothing in the VA Pilot. Now George Bush takes a spill during a 17 mile hike on his mountain bike. John Kerry makes a mean spirited remark about Bush needing training wheels and the Washington Post's editorial cartoonist Toles shows Bush in an endless series of belly flops as he hits the rocks in Iraq. This the VA Pilot prints.
The value of the VA Pilot...? A life lesson. Some people grow up, others just grow old.
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