I love Civil Beat, and I cannot overstate how lucky we are to have its coverage of politics in Hawaii.  But I must say: I'm not sure this meta-story is newsworthy.  Civil Beat published its original piece with the video, and the next week it publishes this article which appears to be a self-serving argument for the propriety of its publication of the first piece.  The effect: Kenoi's toast remains in the news simply because Civil Beat has restated its belief that the toast was newsworthy.