Every day it gets more ridiculous, and now even the front page has lost all reason.
I was riding into work this morning and I heard on NPR a review of Hillary Clinton's interview on Bill O'Reilly. I don't want to argue about whether she should have gone on his show. I didn't like that decision. But, I laughed out loud when I heard her say:
"Rich people, God bless us."
Yes, Wolfson is a goof-ball for trying to say that she really said "God blessed us." He doesn't understand what she was saying. But neither does kos
Stay with me while I explain.
This is a Southern expression, that some may not understand if they have not spent much time down here. She was not making any claim of divine partiality. She was mocking Bill O'Reilly, and he didn't get it, and apparently niether did Howard Wolfson or kos, or a few hundred commenters on that story who are so desperate to find the next thing they can hate Hillary Clinton for that they have ceased to stop and think.
O'Reilly was complaining about his tax bracket, which is higher because he makes truckloads of money, and Clinton responded brialliantly, but colloquially. I am trying to figure out the Yankee translation of this. The best I can come up with is this.
"Rich people - poor little things."
Still, though, the key is in the tone of voice with which one says such things, so you should go and listen to her say it.
Now, this still looks bad for the Clinton campaign, that she and her campaign manager are not on the same page. He should have explained it just like I did. Instead he made a lame attampt to change the quatation when there was no need to.
But chill out folks. She was not claiming that God likes rich people better - which would be no original claim. Most people have beleived that for at least 5000 years.