coming out (wink, wink) and just saying it!

So I've been watching a lot of Olympic coverage, which kind of drives me crazy sometimes. It just bugs me when they package stuff up, and then do the commentary way after the fact. For example, when an commentator will say "And (insert name) crosses the finish line and will win the gold medal!" but it's like a half second too early. Anyway, the phenomenon that gives me the most joy in the media is when they want to do a story on something that's not quite politically correct, so they try to package it in a different way, as if that was what they were really focusing on, but we all know what they mean. Case in point: the piece on Johnny Weir. It was almost like Bob Costas was saying certain words really slowly and nodding and winking at the camera while saying them. They would say things like "Boy, that Johnny Weir, what a CHARACTER (wink, wink) with that FLAMBOYANT (wink, wink) personality of his." Allow me to translate to what they were really saying: "Boy, that Johnny Weir, what a CARICATURE OF A GAY PERSON with that FLAMING personality of his." It's like their way of doing a piece on how effeminine Johnny Weir is, without doing a piece on how effeminine Johnny Weir is. I almost feel like my intelligence has been insulted, as if they expect we wouldn't figure it out. But now if anyone points a finger at them, they can put their hands up and say "No, no! That was simply a piece on how INTERESTING (wink, wink) he is." I guess it's a lot like how Joe Dumars can't just up and say "Drafting Darko was a huge mistake. He has the coordination of a drunk sorority girl and the work ethic of a stoned teamster. If it were somehow possible, I would rather have drafted Sam Bowie than to draft Darko."