“I followed every primary with bated breath,...”
Was she drinking bat coffee?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094104/posts
{There’s nothing wrong with what the author said — I just happened to read the second article very recently.}
“There’s nothing wrong with what the author said ...” = “There’s nothing wrong with the expression — everything else the author said is either brilliant satire; or very, very, very wrong.”