Journalism Offs Itself in Daylight
[a passing thought]
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
—Emily Dickinson
Though a Frog [sic] may indeed make sounds (often referred to as “ribbit”s), there is no evidence that frogs have names or can speak them, or that a Bog [sic] can hear, much less admire, the utterances of a frog.
It’s as if some media types deliberately, still, twist and contort, lie and obfuscate, and choose to miss the point of anything Hillary Clinton has to say.
Glen Kessler is an odd duck.
“There is nothing to indicate that Mr. Kessler talks, walks, or sounds like a duck. Although we do not know what he does in the privacy of his home.”