Talking to a reporter, the waitress at the center of the absurd Hillary/no tip story had this to say:

“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”

Ah, but Ms. Esterday, those elite pundits and journalists aren’t affected by these trifles as you and I are.

If that doesn’t sum up what’s so very wrong about our political journalism today, I don’t know what is. Everything is gossip!

(via Balloon Juice, though I’ve since seen this on many blogs)