I'm sitting here, the night that the President gave his SOTU.  Sporatically, there is a mention of the main themes of the speech, and a terse sentance or two describing the rebuttal.

     Then they spend a stomach-churning amount of time trying to whip me up into a frenzy about Dakota Fanning's participation in an on-screen rape scene, which they assure me, is graphic and disturbing and very very likely to boost ratings, guaranteed to keep people nailed to their couches 'till the next commercial break, bad.

     I havn't seen the movie.  I am not likely to see the movie.  I'm not competent to decide if a crime was comitted, or if Ms. Fanning is mature enough to decide to participate in her own choices on the matter.  I'm not qualified to say anything about the appropriatness of her parents giving their consent.  I trust that people who ARE qualified, and who DO see the movie will do their jobs. 

     I just know that I don't want to see it, and as such, I would really really really appreciate it if my news presenters didn't insist on infusing my news with the words "Child rape" over and over and over again.

     It would also be really great if they didn't look and sound so damned self-serving, self-satisfied, and exceited while saying it.  Over and over and over again.