Scandalously Drinking Water IN Public

THE HEADLINE ON AOL SAID: "Rubio has awkward moment during address." Who could resist this tantalizing teaser. For lewd details, click on link. Click click. On to the huffington post, where one is often sent for sensation by the tantalizing tempters at aol.

We'll show you something shockingly sensational, but first, we entice you with a bawdy headline, then, you click. OK, let's play the game. The huffington post headlines reads "Rubio Drinks Water During Speech!"  As if we are supposed to be shocked by this scandalous revelation. Huh? What? Excuse me?

Drinking water? That's rubio's "awkward" act?  the supposedly awkward moment involved senator rubio taking a drink of water, during a speech on television? Will horrors never cease! The huff and puff goes on to elicidate the scandalous details of rubio's behavior: he licked his lips, and wiped his mouth, on top of everything else. The nerve of him!

 My heavens, what will he do next? Expose himself, scream obscenities, pick his nose, andurinate on camera?  Folks listening on radio never even noticed. They missed all the excitement. Thank goodness the good public servants like aol and the huff  alerted us to this atrocity. Drinking water, in public! Where have our values gone?

Down the drain, apparently. Are we really so engrossed in our sensational media driven celebrity culture that companies like aol and the huffington post can give us water drinking by a politician, present it as a scandal, and reasonably expect to profit thereby? Apparantly so.

No, this is not liberalism run amok, a gratuitous attack by the liberal media on a conservative leader. This aint that, at all. This is contrived controversy being fed to a sluggish entertainment addicted public for freemarket corporate profit. This is culture and capitalism combining, to run amok.

We the american people do not have to put up with this! We do not have to live this way! We can do better. We can rise above corporate manipulation, above crass celebrity culture, and show these sleaze slinging corporate exploiters that we are not quite the shallow idiots they take us for.

At least, not quite. We can ignore celebrity culture, we can stop paying for it, and we can even perhaps reach deep into our reserve of forbearance and magnanimously forgive senator marco rubio for having the audacity to drink water in public.