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Scandal! OMG!

By Brian Montopoli

February 22, 2007 / 10:05 AM EST / CBS News

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Entertainment mogul David Geffen, who supports Sen. Barack Obama for president, recently made some critical remarks about Hillary Clinton and her husband. The comments were reported in a Maureen Dowd column. The Clinton campaign came out swinging in the wake of the comments, and Obama's team shot right back. And then the media jumped on what is ultimately a pretty insignificant story.

The press wants to have it both ways with this one – media outlets are giving the kerfuffle a ton of play (it made the front pages of three major national newspapers today), but they are also wondering if "people [will] be able to take 18 1/2 months of this," as Eat The Press put it. The New York Post put the story on its cover, under the headline "The Big Chill," while the New York Daily News asked: "Two Years Of This?"

You mean two years of media outlets overplaying minor stories that drive narratives but have little real substantive value? Yeah, I'm dreading that too.