Prez Candidate Sex Scandal In Offing?
Is the Los Angeles Times sitting on a sex scandal story about a certain presidential candidate that could blow the campaign wide open?
Rumors about the story – which apparently does not involve a certain guy who gets $300 haircuts — have been circulating in Washington for some time. The story apparently is ready, which means that it has been checked, double-checked and lawyered, but the Times apparently doesn’t know when or whether to let it rip.
This prompts Ron Rosenbaum, a PajamasMedia blogger, to opine:
“If it’s true, I don’t envy the LAT. I respect their hesitation, their dilemma, deciding to run or not to run it raises a lot of difficult journalism ethics questions and they’re likely to be attacked, when it comes out—the story or their suppression of the story—whatever they do.”
Having been in the same position myself as a newspaper editor, although the stories certainly were not as high stakes, I quite agree. In one instance we hesitated and got scooped by another publication. In another we ran with the story, which generated more criticism for the paper than the philandering pol.
Rosenbaum continues:
“It raises all sorts of ethical questions. What about private sexual behavior is relevant? What about a marriage belongs in the coverage of a presidential campaign? Does it go to the judgment of the candidate in question? Didn’t we all have a national nervous breakdown over these questions nearly a decade ago?”
More here.
11 Responses to “Prez Candidate Sex Scandal In Offing?”
Now they are splitting hairs on this, where was this soul searching 10-years ago? If it was good enough for President Clinton then, it’s good enough for this candidate now. Assuming the story is well sourced and not just a rumor.
I know some will make the case about the candidate’s integrity, honesty, etc and to some extent that is true. However, I DO NOT CARE. I didn’t care with Clinton and I don’t really care now, no matter who it is.
I love the fact that Shaun can pimp stupid sex scandals, repeat that retarded meme about haircuts, quote Pajamas Media for chrissakes, and people still call him a liberal.
The media’s coverage of this country’s elections is already worthless. Yet more media BS is irrelevant.
Rudy lies through his teeth. He’s a giant liar.
We should take a tip from Sarkozy.
Secual scandals do not endanger national security, and the one man, one woman plus 2.4 children behind a picket fence story was always a myth.
BTW. who ist it, and what did he/she do? (Snicker)
Seriously, I don’t care!
The problem is with the first focus: why bother researching the scandal in the first place? Hiding the information once it’s information is silly. You might as well publish it and watch the people scream at this point.
In this day and age, and given the length of the campaign and focus on individual candidates foibles, there probably is no way to hush up any secret scandal for good. You can affect the election with the timing of its release, however. Just look at the results of the Foley mess.
According to the Village Voice gossip: “HILLARY CLINTON is GAYLE KING–ing her aide de camp, the glamorous HUMA ABEDIN”
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0732,musto,77465,15.html
According to Blogger: “Hillary relationship with one of her top aides Huma Abedin”
http://bigheaddc.com/2007/10/31/la-times-sitting-on-an-explosive-prez-candidate-sex-story/
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