smallwhitecat - the hitler analogy was bring used to illustrate the stupidity of "ooh, he's gay", "ooh, he's a vegetarian" type attacks.
The levity is because there is generally a funny side to politicans being caught with their trousers down, even when the story is actually pretty sad when examined in detail.
The real issue is that a leading member of a government which has preached on and on at us about austerity, and is cutting 25% off most departmental budgets, has employed twice as many advisers as his predecessors. And one of them is strangely under-qualified, thus causing pundits to wonder how he got the job.
But you keep pummelling away at your "crazy left-wingers" straw man there.