DEPLORABLE. It is deplorable -- deplorable, my friends -- that political parties might use illness or the misfortunes of others to score political points, and it is exploitative -- exploitative, my friends -- that they would use videotaping equipment to bring this deplorable exploitation into our living rooms. And how do we know they're not faking it? It's either one, my friends. Why, if we let something like that happen, then who knows? A president might have to interrupt only the 43rd vacation of his administration to get back to work, and an actual doctor might use his professional credentials like a cheap tin drum, thereby rendering himself personally ridiculous, and his nascent presidential run a sad little circus act.
Deplorable, my friends. Can't have that.
--Charles P. Pierce
