a good take on all of this shite

i feel the same way as the author.

1) i really do NOT care who is boinking whom. i don't. it's not my business
UNLESS
2) you profess everyone is a sinner who doesn't abide by the 'sanctity' of marriage. marriage between a man and a woman. that's 'sacred' and special and beautiful and on and on and on and on
3) you vote against gay marriage because 'straight' marriage is sacred
4) you vote to impeach or demand resignations from certain other individuals who were caught cheating
5) you ignore certain other individuals indiscretions (especially if they are members of your own party)
6) you are caught in an outright lie

the main stream media doesn't treat republicans who are caught with their pants down worse than democrats caught with their pants down (edwards, clinton, etc). they don't

the liberal media may treat them a bit more harshly. why? for the reasons i listed above (and more). most republicans that were caught coincidentally were some of the loudest professors of the importance of heterosexual marriage and marriage vows being akin to achieving rapture. the louder they preach, the guiltier i think they are. there are SO effing many republicans that have stepped out on their wives (and it's been PROVEN) that the media don't touch. it's sickening. well sanford deserves to be gutted (figuratively as you all know i don't believe in wishing anyone harm)

and oh by the way, mika was a local hartford newscaster for a bit back in the day

Mika Brzezinski's double standard

In the wake of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's admission of an affair with an Argentine woman, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski complained of a "double standard" in the way affairs by politicians "are judged," insisting that Republicans are treated more harshly than Democrats. Brzezinski didn't explicitly say the media play a role in that alleged "double standard," but that's the only plausible interpretation of her comments -- surely she isn't accusing the American people of bias.

Now, if Brzezinski wants to say that the media should leave Sanford alone, I won't take issue with that. There is a pretty good argument to be made that Sanford's marriage is none of our business. (There is also a pretty strong argument to be made that you forfeit privacy in your own extramarital affairs when you tell others who they can and can't wed, and when you insist that other politicians caught in affairs should resign.)

But Brzezinski's claim of a double standard in which the media make a bigger deal out of the affairs of Republican politicians than Democrats is pure bunk and cannot be allowed to go undisputed.

Nobody would expect an affair involving a senator or governor or even a speaker of the House to garner as much attention as one involving a sitting president. But nobody who was paying attention in 1998 can plausibly claim that the media give Democrats a pass. The feeding frenzy set off by the Lewinsky story that January is simply unmatched in history. It was the dominant topic in newspapers, on evening news broadcasts, and on cable news every day for a year. ............