Housekeeper and Taxes Are Said to Derail Kennedy’s Bid

By GottaLaff

Norah O'Donnell is having a field day jumping all over Caroline's "disastrous, bungled, rocky" bid for governor. "What's going on here??" she asked incredulously of Washington Post's Ruth Marcus:

Problems involving taxes and a household employee surfaced during the vetting of Caroline Kennedy and derailed her candidacy for the Senate, a person close to Gov. David A. Paterson said on Thursday, in an account at odds with Ms. Kennedy’s own description of her reasons for withdrawing. [...]

Hard feelings toward Ms. Kennedy were clearly building among the governor’s staff on Thursday, after a dramatic evening in which she was reported to be dropping out, then wavering, then ultimately, shortly after midnight on Thursday, issuing a statement ending her candidacy.

A person close to the governor:

“The fiasco of the last 24 hours reinforced why the governor never intended to choose her,” the person said.

Uh-huh, sure, yeah, but she was still under consideration. Go read the New York Times piece for their depicition of the madness surrounding Kennedy's decision.

Watching O'Donnell's interview with Marcus, and now with the author of this article (who is wondering aloud if the housekeeper may actually be the issue at all), I can safely say that the media have gone completely tabloid about this.

Whatever happened to professionalism?