It Is What It Is

RED IS LIFE is about wine - food - occasional ramblings about issues that are simply beyond comprehension - e.g. - FEMA in NOLA post Katrina -

Recent parsing of presidential candidate language by media commentators - having entered the realm of - "simply beyond comprehension" -

Case in point -

A candidate  - on a "radio sports show, where he wanted to talk basketball" - talks about his grandmother -

Correspondent A - plays the sound-bite and says of the remarks - "they are what they are" -

Correspondent B - listening to the same recording - judgmentally contradicts correspondent A - "the remark is not what it seems - rather its a commentary on the world as a whole - a condemnation of a large part of our society - it could cost the candidate significant votes - indeed - his grandmother could cost him the general election .................." -

Get a life - there was no DSM (deep signiificant meaning) - or - WMDs - the candidate spoke as a grandson matter-of-factly of his grandmother - not of the house of mirrors labeled foreign or domestic policy -

On balance the media does a great job - but - they have to step back every once-and-a-while - listen to themselves - take inventory -

If every word and/or tonal innuendo is subject to analysis based on nothing more than opinion raised to the level of expertise by the need to create content to fill the multi-channel 24-hour bottomless cauldron we call political media - no one will risk speaking without vetting their remarks through pollsters and "legal" - it will be the end of extemporaneous speech -

Pick the battle - if we cannot see that sometimes - it is what it is - it will be a shame -