Mardy Mitchell And The Non-Story.

In the 'Did he, didn't he row' over Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell, it appears that evidence against him is rather scant after senior tories have reviewed a 40 second film of the incident.

There is apparently no aggressive posturing to be detected in the body language and they seem thoroughly unconvinced that he made the said latin reference to one of the boys in blue.
That he was a bit grumpy and less than courteous is fully clear but if he had used the 'p' word - it ain't exactly a hanging offence, is it? It is not swearing - and in one sense has to be seen as 100% accurate, in any case.
The man has apologised for his manner.
I hold no brief for the tories as every regular reader knows full well but this is just downright silly!
Or is it?
Do we not learn something here of vital importance? A minor piece of rudeness is blown out of all proportion and becomes media headlines with a tedious story which refuses to lay down and die.
'The usual suspects' have been demanding his head on a spike. Where on earth has our sense of proportion disappeared to?
From this we learn just how dangerous the media are. The man has been described as a 'rightwinger'. I have no idea whether this could possibly be true (in Cameron's liberal lefty party) or not but I do know that no greater non-cursing insult can ever be more malevolently intended from the journalistic left.
Compare this to 'punching Prescott' which had some merit as a newspaper headline - but ended up being treated more as a joke.
No. Something is rotten in the state of .....