It’s nothing so insidious.
You have to remember, these people all work and live in small communities, and most likely see each other on a daily basis. They work in newsrooms which have close proximity to each other.
It’s the washington/new york social circle, they all get together for their parties on a regular basis. One of them uses some zinger and they all just pick up on it.
The media is practicing their ability to deflect from the reality that if Blago is so crazy why did the Prince BO help run Blago’s reelection for Governor in 2006. Once again the hidden question is how does BO manage to ignore the obvious bad character of his closest associations?
None of these cowards will dare bring up the obvious question, the ‘pure’ BO is the product of a corrupt environment from Hawai to ChiTown and he stinks too.