There are a lot of topics in the news that reporters and pundits often get wrong but I can't think of one where they seem to be so consistently full of manure than this one: Tensions in the marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
I have no idea what their marriage is like behind closed doors…and insofar as I can tell, neither does a single one of the many writers who've penned articles and books about their private lives. The pieces all remind me of those essays we all did in school — I did them, you did them, we all did them — about subjects we knew nothing about. You fake. You cite imaginary references and sources. You generalize. You speculate. But you report absolutely nothing factual because you don't have anything factual.
Since Bill returned from his Korean mission, there are all these articles on the 'net about what this means for the marriage; how he's upstaged his spouse and this led to angry words or must have led to angry words. Well, maybe it did. If I wrote that you had roast beef for dinner last night, I might be right, too…but that wouldn't mean I had any basis for my reporting. That's kinda how I feel about every piece I've seen about friction in the Clinton marriage. How many times have we now heard that divorce papers were being drawn up? How many times have those reports been accurate? At times, I almost suspect they're staying together just to prove the Enquirer wrong.