What price a good headline?

To be fair, The Scotsman and their 'exclusive' that Hillary's a monster has given them worldwide coverage but I think it's a fairly low blow to quote someone for an off-the-cuff remark knowing full well it is going to cost them their job.

I've never held The Scotsman and their journalists in particularly high esteem but they sunk a little bit lower yesterday.

If this is some sort of turning point for Obama I think I'm going to have to move country!

But then again, I am reminded of a West Wing episode where the President calls his Republican challenger an idiot (not outright, it's more of a gun metaphor). The press spend the next 5 days discussing how impolite it all is but the lasting memory for people is they have a choice between a thick President or a really clever one.

And maybe, just maybe, that could be the silver lining in all of this. If the choice in America's mind is "shall we go for an optimistic bright young man or a monster" one can only hope they make the right choice....