NEW RULE

If one shuts up, clarifications are unnecessary.

Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY): “Ruth Bader Ginsburg…has cancer. Bad cancer. The kind you don’t get better from. Even though she was operated on, usually nine months is the longest that anybody would live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.”

Senator Bunning is not cruel. He is not malicious. Still, he should have never spoken. Comprehension is not the issue. Interpretation is the issue. Senator Bunning is intelligent. He recognized the potential interpretation. He should have shut up.