Seems to meet the today’s high standards of the MSM, fake but accurate.
With one or two exceptions nationwide the left makes the person raising the question the issue. It's a malicious Leninst/Stalinist tactic but it's what they do, in general it is all they can do.
"I wouldn't insult gays by comparing them to John Edwards. Now, that would be mean. But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I've learned my lesson. If I'm gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."