Chuck Todd, editor of the online political clearinghouse Hotline, calls the gossip phenomenon “pack gossip journalism,” a byproduct of the celebrification of politics and the attendant proliferation of media to cover it.

When we gamble at poker, we play for keeps.

I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family

To be extremely hated and inhumanly persecuted , without any fault committed or just occasion offered, is greatly incensive of human passion