But we need sob stories!
The latest in can-you-believe-this-guy campaign-trail videos: Senate candidate Eric Hovde, who—like Montgomery Burns with a Wisconsin accent—reduces media coverage of low-income people facing service cuts to "sob stories." Take a look:
Pretty heartless stuff—and pretty bush league. (Hovde's lightly mockng summary of stories of struggling people: "Oh, the person couldn't get, you know, their food stamps or this or that." He's a first-time candidate for office. You think?)
