Clarification: This story was updated Aug. 8 to more accurately summarize the official response from Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office to the incident. The story’s phrase boys will be boys is a common colloquialism reflecting the tone and substance of McConnell’s office email response to The News’s questions. The salient portion from their response was “These young men are not campaign staff, they’re high schoolers and it’s incredible that the national media has sought to once again paint a target on their backs rather than report real, and significant news in our country.”