"Bittergate": condensed for ease of comprehension.

As we see diary after diary lovingly crafted about "bittergate," I realize that it can get a little confusing to keep track of the myriad facts composing this saga. I spent the last few hours collecting, analyzing and then organizing all the data so that anyone who finds themselves lost and wandering the murky halls of this scandal can finally see the light and make sense of it all.

Here, then, is what happened:

1. Obama made a factually correct point using sloppy language.

2. Clinton and her campaign seized on the language to try and gain points on Obama.

3. The fallout from Obama's language has been minimal at best, imaginary at worst.

4. Such has not deterred the Clinton campaign nor its supporters from continuing to use this "scandal."

For your further perusal, the following things are what I believe will be the long-term ramifications of Obama's blunder:

1. Nothing

2. All of the above

And finally, I give you a summary of all of the diaries about this subject, in picture form:

If some people are still having trouble piecing together all of the facts, here is another way to look at it:

We have fallen into the very pattern of behavior that we rant against. We have, once again, become very much like the media that disgusts us on a near constant basis.

We have chosen to make the banal, the vapid, and the irrelevant into the all-important.