The media reporters and commentators engaging in this behavior is what blows this up into a media event.

The point I was hoping someone might make was that it wasn't being covered because the media is covering for their own, at the expense of the voting public.

The FCC should be regulating election speech on OUR airwaves, IMO. Not going after the networks for Bono f-bombing the audience at the Grammys
and Janet Jackson flashing the same thing the Budweiser commercials show during their ads at the Super Bowl.