Not really. He's only saying what others have already said. Privately it would have been taken in it's proper context and folks would have moved on. His problem in this case is that it was said in front of the ambulance chasers. (The media) and their only interest is making as much of an issue out of it as possible just as some on this site will do. OMHO it's a nothing story. On the same line as the Paris Hilton DUI story.

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