Great line from David Greenberg’s recent “read” of the candidates in Dissent:

In the ensuing debate about whether the photographer violated journalistic ethics, some pundits speculated that the Clintons had actually posed for the camera, hoping to send the public an irrefutable image of their closeness. Although this notion was absurd—“Just name me any 50-year-old woman who would knowingly pose in her bathing suit,” Hillary smartly quipped—it underscored the widespread uncertainty about what is real in political life and what is staged, what is spontaneous and what is contrived. We have become so alert to the manipulations of politicians and their consultants that sometimes the problem isn’t so much that we accept what’s false as true; it’s that we suspect that what’s true is really false.

Particularly in light of the recent episode credited with Hillary’s bounce in NH, this essay seems particularly salient.

Keith Olbermann’s take on the crying incident hasn’t emerged elsewhere — she slams Barack Obama as inexperienced in a most reprehensible way — further undermining claims that this incident was premeditated.