Let me get this straight: After years of the media acting as though the most important decision in casting your vote is determining which candidate you'd rather have a drink with, and after the media decided that the president having a beer with a cop and a professor was so awesome it required on-screen graphics and a countdown clock, the New York Post thinks it's an outrage that the Governor of New York had a cocktail at a birthday party?

Come on.

And does anyone think the New York Post would have run this article if the Governor's name was “George Pataki,” and the birthday party was at Sully's Irish Pub, and the drink was a bottle of Bud?

Seems unlikely to me.

But Governor David Paterson, at a birthday party for a BET executive (and longtime friend), drinking an Elderflower cocktail? Scandal!