Review and comment

It's a puzzling paradox. Americans scowl at career, hack politicians who have done nothing in their adult lives but politics. At the same time, Americans generally have great respect for the competent, successful business people in their communities, and they pine for those traits in their elected representatives.

And yet, in politics, a candidate who has achieved business success and earned wealth is often viewed as the equivalent of Ebola. He's diseased. A pariah. Held in vicious contempt — regardless of his rational, competent behavior.

We won't even go down the path of how Rick Scott has been portrayed. Suffice it to say, and we do so knowing the whole story, the mainstream media have conveniently not investigated or told the other side of the Rick Scott business story (there are always two sides, you know).