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| Tue, 10-14-2008 - 12:47pm |
That was a much catchier slogan than the more accurate "So I Screw Around on My Wife and Paid Off my Girlfriend to Keep her Quiet". I guess a sex scandal is only a sex scandal if it involves a Republican.
TV Newsers Who Fawned Over Foley Sex Scandal Ignore Mahoney
By Noel Sheppard
October 14, 2008 - 02:11 ET
On Monday, NewsBusters wondered how much coverage the sex scandal involving Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fl.) -- the Democrat Congressman who in 2006 won the seat previously held by the disgraced Mark Foley -- would get.
Early indications suggest that as far as the television news outlets are concerned, the answer is "not much."
In fact, though all three broadcast network evening news programs covered the Foley sex scandal when it was first revealed on September 29, 2006, not one of them felt that the man who replaced him admitting to having an affair with a former campaign staffer was at all newsworthy.
PBS's "The News Hour" also covered the Foley affair on the day it was first revealed, but passed on the Mahoney story Monday.
As for CNN, although the Mahoney affair was first reported by ABCNews.com early Monday afternoon, its first mention was during 7PM's "Lou Dobbs Tonight." By contrast, "the most trusted name in news" did seven stories about Foley on the day the scandal first broke two years ago beginning with 3PM's "Newsroom."
At this rate, this story could be over by the time the stock market closes on Tuesday, which could make it one of the shortest Washington, D.C., sex scandals on record.
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That Tim Mahoney sounds like such a nice guy!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5998929
Edited 10/14/2008 12:53 pm ET by frozenmargarita4me

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I read about this this morning on the msnbc site - you know, the Keith Olberman people.
Edited 10/14/2008 1:24 pm ET by frozenmargarita4me
The governor of my state (Jim Gibbons) is a staunch Republican who has pretty much gotten a free pass for his cheating ways.
personally I'm ready for the day that the sex lives of all politicians, actors, and other famous people are not front page news.
I'd rather concentrate on my own sex life ;-)
I'm guessing the fact Foley was after underage pages of his own gender, while Mahoney's girlfriend was an adult might have something to do with it.
Then again I had no problem finding plenty of new stories on this scandal, so I guess I'm missing the purpoprted lack of media interest.
Generally, I find that questions of Faith and Family should be kept private.
In the case of Foley, (and I wouldn't have known about it if it hadn't been made into such a huge deal) my concern was that he was targeting under-aged pages. I have a son who is 17 and I would be livid if some old person in authority were making sexual advances. If he were going after another consenting adult, that would be a different matter (in terms of it being of public concern).
I'd rather concentrate on my own sex life ;-)
LMBO.
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