Why I cannot stand the media sometimes...

So Wolf Blitzer has spent the last half hour reminding me that not only am I "in the Situation Room" (why the hell does he have to say that so much?) but harping on the fact that apparently Congressman Patrick Kennedy was involved in a passengerless, single car traffic accident last night with a barricade on Capitol Hill, and that even though the Congressman's office says alcohol was not involved, things look fishy because a couple of Captiol Hill cops drove Mr. Kennedy home without administering field sobriety tests...

I mean, come on already. No harm, no foul. Whether the guy did or didn't have a few single malts, he smacked up his car and no one else. Not only politicians, but everyday folk get a free pass once in awhile for screwing up. Do we really need complete CNN team coverage on the "incident"? Is a Kennedy family member having too much of a good time even a news story anymore?

Let's hope Wolf never heads home sans driver from a dinner at Cipriani or Balthazar, after a fine Burgundy, and have a newspaper machine or hot dog cart jump out at his expensive luxury automobile...