Reality Check

Me thinks too much time and energy has been spent on Anthony Weiner. I offer a piece from a June 10 New York Times editorial by Peter Catapano. " Can you imagine how much different, and better, our political culture would be if our establishment media devoted even a fraction of the critical scrutiny and adversarial energy it devoted to the Weiner matter to things that actually matter. But that won't happen, because the people who comprise the press corps, with rare exception, are both incapable of focusing on things that matter and uninterested in doing so. Talking about shirtless pictures and expressing outrage about private sexual behavior -- like some angry, chattering soap opera fan furious that one of their best known characters cheated -- is about the limit of their abilities and their function."