Paul Begala's recent comments are very crude.

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3. I find that bloggers rantings to be more crude than a fart joke.

A pundit's role is to speak their opinion, they are not Statesmen nor are they journalists. Begala is a political consultant, and when he appears in media he appears in that role, he does not claim to be a journalist nor a statesman. He's a political consultant. His job is not to teach the American people, dear blogger, his job is to advise his candidates what the voters will think. To suggest that pundits and strategists have any business 'enlightening' the pitiful masses as to what they should be thinking is pretty offensive to me.
The language the blogger uses is dehumanizing, hyperbolic, and in my view offensive. Axelrod and Rove are the same, a species, and Axelrod has contempt for the American people, his objective is to make them ignorant and lazy.
This is some hot rhetoric on tap and all because a political consultant says he does not think Americans care much about this email crap and the blogger thinks Americans should agree with the blogger.
If the blogger was a journalist, I might ask about that obligation to enlighten, and how that duty is served by the politics of personal destruction. If the blogger was not just a pundit, I might suggest the blogger should be explaining to readers why the blogger thinks the email crap is important, rather than trying to get readers upset that a grown man said shit. In politics.