"I've fallen and that S.O.B. knocked me over!"

Here's Mickey Kaus on what happens when the New York Times conspires with the Kerry campaign:

A presidential candidate says "son of a bitch" in public, and the NYT can't print it? In this case, the omission hurt Kerry--readers of the Times probably assumed he'd said something much worse.

I know I did. I figured Kerry used (appropriately!) a word that rhymes with "Mass-hole."