SexScandals

CNN Anchor Goes Personal on Vitter, Who Responds 'The Good News Is...It's Not Up to CNN' to Pick GOP Nominee

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:24:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

On Monday's Early Start, co-host Ashleigh Banfield insisted to Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that "I got to" bring up his 2007 prostitution scandal, so she could ask how Newt Gingrich could "manage the baggage" of his personal sex life. Vitter fired back that "the good news is, in America, it's not up to CNN" how the GOP presidential nominee is chosen.

Was Anthony Weiner Victim of New Washington 'Puritanism'?

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:57:00 +0000

Kate Zernike on Anthony Weiner, victim of Washington "puritanism"? "But technology keeps adding new and in many ways more seductive temptations to the mix. And this is happening at a time when, many argue, a more prying press corps, stricter public standards and greater partisanship have combined to make Washington oddly more puritanical than it once was."

Clay Waters

Was disgraced Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner, who carried on several inappropriate online chats with young women, a victim of a newly 'puritanical' climate in Washington? That's the inference from Kate Zernike's front-page story for the Times' Week in Review, 'Naked Hubris...While digital flux makes it easier for politicians to stray,' a companion piece to Sheryl Gay Stolberg's 'When it comes to scandal, boys will be boys.' She wrote:

Disgraced NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer on 'Road to Redemption'

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:17:00 +0000

Just don't call the former prostitution ring client a Democrat, OK?

Clay Waters

The Times treated one of its long-time favorite pols, former crusading Democratic governor Eliot Spitzer, as a tarnished knight in a long profile for the front of Thursday Styles section by Jan Hoffman: "Eliot Spitzer's Long, Winding and Slightly Bewildering Road to Redemption."

Morning Shows Devote Almost an Hour to Hyping Sanford Story

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

The three network morning shows on Thursday devoted a staggering 18 segments to the revelation that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was having an affair with a woman from Argentina, adding up to over 54 minutes of coverage. NBC's Today show spent the most time on the subject, highlighting the infidelity with six segments and 25 minutes of air time.

CNN Omits Democrats' Sex Scandals, Zeroes-in on GOP

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:50:00 +0000

Matthew Balan

CNN's Ali Velshi, during a segment on Thursday's Newsroom program, ignored all the past sex scandals involving Democrats in recent years as he focused on "another sex scandal involving a leading Republican." When his guest, Tony Blankley, tried to counter with how these scandals are being used to try to get the GOP to abandon social issues, Velshi tried hard to brush this aside.

Sam Donaldson: It's Hard to Forgive Bible-thumping GOPers for Their Sex Scandals

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:15:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

ABC's Sam Donaldson appeared on Thursday's Good Morning America to talk about the developing Mark Sanford scandal and loudly assert that it's hard to forgive Bible-thumping Republi

Former Clinton Aide Stephanopoulos: Dems Have a Harder Time Surviving Sex Scandals

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

Former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos appeared on Thursday's Good Morning America to bizarrely assert that Democrats have a harder times surviving sex scandals than Republicans.

He's No Spitzer: ABC, CBS, NBC All Brand Ensign a 'Republican'

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Rich Noyes

All three broadcast network morning shows on Wednesday made a point of labeling Nevada Senator John Ensign as a "Republican" after the Senator came forward last night to admit having an extramarital affair last year.

CBS's Rodriguez: Catholic Church Too 'Stringent,' Should Be 'More Progressive'

Fri, 29 May 2009 16:26:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

While reporting on disgraced priest Alberto Cutie leaving the Catholic Church in the wake of a sex scandal, on Friday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez asked CBS News analys

Sen. Craig Scandal Means GOP Is Doomed (Again)

admin — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:53:00 +0000

Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg lovingly lingered over a long list of Republican ethical woes.

Clay Waters

Sheryl Gay Stolberg used Sen. Larry Craig's men's room misdeed for a front-page "Political Memo," "A Scandal-Scarred G.O.P. Asks, 'What Next?'"

"The Ethicist" Links Mark Foley to Bush's "Profound Assault...on Democracy Itself"

admin — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:15:00 +0000

Columnist Randy Cohen, on CNN to talk about Foley: "...this, it seems to me, is a part of a larger pattern of the administration's habit of secrecy, of cover-ups. We see other example in Bob Woodward's book. You know, democracy relies on transparency and openness. And to undermine that is really an ethical transgression. It's a profound assault on civic virtue, on democracy itself.

Clay Waters

Randy Cohen, whopens "The Ethicist" column for the New York Times Magazine, was on CNN Monday night "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees" (hat tip CJR Daily) to discuss the ethics of the Mark Foley scandal.