All the news that fits
So apparently "leading Democrats" are worried about Bill and Hillary Clinton's marriage and sex life ... and this "news" is considered fit for big-deal treatment on the front page of The New York Times in light of Hillary Clinton's rumored 2008 campaign for president.
I'm not a huge fan of either Clinton, but this is just ridiculous.
I'll tell you something else, too: A misjudgment this big, a misuse of resources this colossal, is not just the work of a single (no pun intended) reporter.
No, to screw up this big, I'm betting some of the most senior editors at the Times had to get involved.
I also must assume that, in the interests of fairness and balance, we have the dubious pleasure of looking forward to examinations of the marriages and/or dating lives of every other major presidential candidate, plus, I would think, stories checking to see whether single senior administration officials are hewing to its doctrine of abstinence before marriage and how their doing so, or failure to do so, is likely to affect their job performance.
Gawd. No wonder our industry is in so much trouble.
UPDATE: Someone alert The New York Times! Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is wandering the Capitol doused in gorilla testosterone!
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What a shame we'll have no vixen Laura and her boudoir behavior.
Thankfully, we'll also miss Teresa Heinz Kerry.
What's the Tipper been up to, lately?
Posted on May 23, 2006 9:34 PM
I don't know.
And I don't want to know.
Posted on May 24, 2006 9:17 AM
Do you realize what would happen if journalists actually got serious about covering politicians' sex lives? Middle America would be quite shocked to learn what their local "family values" congresspeople have been up to.
Might actually be kind of fun. Maybe those of us who live in the D.C. area could actually get private booths at restaurants -- they'd have a sudden rush of vacancies.
Posted on May 24, 2006 11:56 AM
The problem, as always, is opportunity cost. If American journalism gets serious about politicians who are gettin' horizontal, who's going to report on Brangelina?
Posted on May 24, 2006 2:04 PM
For Billary, even bad pub is good pub. After sticking to 275 million Americans for 8 years, why should they care who knows that they don't stick it to each other? BTW, it was, in all probablity, the only story that day that NYT could verify. (I hear they have good reason to verify stories BEFORE printing.)
oh ... and PLEASE don't print the stories of candidates' sex lives! That would include
George and Barbara (Oh, please!)
Lyndon and Lady Bird???? Dick and Pat?? Omigod!
Somebody stop meeeeee .....
Posted on May 26, 2006 4:28 PM