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Three reasons I find politics insufferable these days: Michael J. Fox, Rush Limbaugh, and John Kerry.

First, the Fox ad. All of this outrage over Limbaugh's comment reeks of phoniness, enough so that a child could spot it. I have a hard time believing that the left side of the American political spectrum, which thought it was fine for George Clooney to ridicule Charlton Heston's Alzheimer's Disease, is just really bent out of shape that Limbaugh would ridicule Fox.

Of course, they completely ignore Limbaugh's original question, which is whether or not Fox faked the symptoms of manipulated his medicine to produce them, a perfectly valid spectulation, although certainly not politically correct. As for all of these Facebook groups demanding Limbaugh be executed for his remarks, so much for liberal support of free speech and opposition to the death penalty.

On the other side of things, we have Sen. Kerry's recent gaffe where he effectively said that people who don't study hard will wind up in the military, fighting in Iraq. Looking past all of the outrage for this one (infinitely more genuine than the Limbaugh outrage), I'm willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and say he likely doesn't believe that the army consists of nothing but uneducated bumpkins. This guy volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam and won a Silver Star, no small task.

That hasn't stopped people from hysterically overreacting. Democrats ranging from Hilary Clinton to local candidate Bruce Braley have instantly tried to distance themselves from Kerry. The gall of this is astonishing, as this man was the Democratic nominee for president just two years ago, and now they're going to turn him into a pariah because of some stupid remark.

How can anyone seriously enjoy this bullshit?