Given the news of the day, I have to assume the reference is to the pressure from the labor movement and the Democratic base to include a robust public option in health care reform. This cartoonist apparently shares the same attitude toward health care reform as we've seen throughout out celebrity press: it bores them to tears and they don't really give a rip about it.
Mark Shields on the PBS Newshour yesterday slipped up and violated the guild rules by giving us a peak at their thinking when asked about Obama's Wednesday speech:
The political class, of whom I guess I'm one, we're -- we're all frustrated sportswriters, and we want it to be third and long. It's the Hail Mary pass. It isn't that. It's a key moment in the health care -- health care effort by the president. [my emphasis]All they really want to talk about is the horse-race stories. And sex.
This is our press corps. This is how important reforms die. And eventually, this is how democracy dies. (On the latter point, see Dick Cheney.)
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