What's with the media's fixation on how candidates smell?

[Phredicles]

I lot of us have had a good, if horrified, laugh over Chris Matthews' gushing over Fred Thompson and so on, but then the Daily Show's Moment of Zen last night was of someone of CNN saying how Romney "looked good, sounded good, smelled good".

I mean, who cares how they smell? If a candidate has a plan for single payer health care, public financing of elections, and getting us the fuck out of Iraq by Jan. 21, 2009, I don't care if s/he's never had a bath in his/her lfe.

And as for Thompson, Mitt the Shitt, et al., I don't care how they smell, they still STINK.:P

[rwenos]

1. It's a Lousy Metaphor for "Media Whore"

Reporters gotta write stories. Fish gotta swim.

[lonestarnot]

2. Stink'n bastards better turn off the war spicket and get down with impeachment before it all dries

up. (Not sure if that's the way one should spell spicket, but I sounded it out LOL) :toast:

[MonkeyFunk]

3. two mentions isn't a fixation

and only one of them referred to actual "smell". The other was metaphorical.