A Sense of Proportion

My expectations are low, and I even understand why Jeremiah Wright's gotten more coverage than John Yoo's love of torture, but the apparent fact that "Yoo and torture" shows up only one tenth as often as "Obama and bowling" in Nexis over the past thirty days really does make you think we're plumbing new depths of terribleness in our press' sense of what matters.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/04/a-sense-of-proportion/44206/