Humor is more effective than blather

This is not an endorsement. This is an appreciation.

It is a good thing that we have passionately fought electoral campaigns. Regrettably, our pundits, media, and most politicians simply aren't up to providing good value for the time and money of the electorate. Everyone is exasperated with the whole kit and kaboodle, while acknowledging the necessity.

But every now and then someone comes along to lighten the dark vista. I have twice in the past couple of weeks seen Marco Rubio ads which indicate that there is someone smart on his communications team and that they are courteous enough to leaven the otherwise dull political nattering.

Rubio, for some reason, seems to have attracted a disproportionate share of nonsensical, motivated mainstream media reporting. There was the New York Times hit job on his wife's driving record. Then I think there was a hit job on the fact that he wasn't born to wealth and had to take out mortgages for his homes and loans for his kid's education or some such. There was another one last week for something equally trivial.

Exasperating that journalists should be simultaneously trivial and partisan, but that's the way of this world.

So sometime in the past few days I saw some kerfuffle. Rubio had been arrested as a teenager for being in a park after dark or something like that. Unless that's followed up with accusations of drug dealing or prostitution or something like similar, that's a nothing-burger. There's no there, there. The cheap, easy to write journalistic excrescence to which we have sadly become too accustomed. Instead of getting sucked into the pit of debating nothing, the Rubio campaign released this.


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Couldn't help but guffaw.

I didn't even see this incident that apparently engulfed the TV pundits. But again, exploiting absurdity for its humor.


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I wish all our politicians were so clever and light hearted.

Humor is more effective than blather.