Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Brzezinski: Democrat's Affair 'Not Pressing,' No Objection to Vitter Coverage

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Dc Madam, Double Standards, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Religion, Sexuality, Antonio Villaraigosa, David Vitter, Joe Scarborough, John Ridley, Mika Brzezinski, Mirthala Salinas, Morning Joe, Msnbc

  Liberals can rest easier knowing that despite her outspoken views on newsworthiness and ethics, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski can still be counted on to go to bat for the Democrats. The reporter and "Morning Joe" regular showed off her famous sense of journalistic integrity while filling in for host Joe Scarborough on Monday morning. In the

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• Scandal-Ridden Eliot Spitzer Posts 'Happy Talk' Blog On Daily Kos

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:53 am

  Tags: Political Scandals, Eliot Spitzer, Daily Kos, Blogs

  threatens to destroy your political career, you go looking for love in the Daily Kos with a divorced from reality "Happy Talk" blog post that makes no mention any pending unpleasantries. Spitzer's "Happy Talk" love fest on the Daily Kos will have no effect in stopping the scandal investigations but perhaps it is temporarily

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• Brzezinski Reverses on Villaraigosa Story: 'That Story's Important'

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:42 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Dc Madam, Double Standards, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Sexuality, Antonio Villaraigosa, David Vitter, Joe Scarborough, John Ridley, Mika Brzezinski, Mirthala Salina, Morning Joe

  of a story that reflected a political double standard on her part. While hosting MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for the vacationing Joe Scarborough, Brzezinski aired a video of a female reporter chasing after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Before she could catch up with the mayor however, the reporter was intercepted by a very large

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• Bozell Column: Tom DeLay vs. Matt Lauer

  Published: September 4, 2007, 9:56 pm

  Tags: Political Scandals, Ann Curry, Matt Lauer, Tom Delay, Nbc, Today

  if these Republican sex scandals would tar the whole party or were just isolated "bad apples," DeLay ignored the question and got right to the point: "Well, I hate to say this Matt, but you just showed the problem, the double-standard, and you just participated in it. You listed a whole lot of scandals that involve the

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• Hsu-in: Only NBC Asked Hillary About Her Crooked Donor Scandal

  Published: September 18, 2007, 3:47 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Elections, Political Scandals, Hillary Clinton, Nbc, Today

  Matt Lauer may have approached Hillary Clinton from the left (as if she were a centrist) on health care on Tuesday's Today, but Lauer was the only morning show host to ask the former First Lady about her campaign-finance scandal surrounding the crook Norman Hsu. ABC, CBS, and CNN all whistled past her campaign's decision to refund $850,000 in

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• Democratic LA Mayor's Mistress Heads Back to Work Reporting News

  Published: September 25, 2007, 2:07 pm

  Tags: Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Groups, Political Scandals, Anthony Villaraigosa, Mirthala Salinas, Media Scandals, Los Angeles Times, Telemundo

  The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that Telemundo reporter and mayoral mistress Mirthala Salinas is heading back at work after a two-month suspension, albeit demoted to a less prominent job within the network: Television newscaster Mirthala Salinas, who was suspended without pay for two months in August after her affair with Los Angeles Mayor

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• Cafferty 'Can't Wait' to Peep Through Larry Craig's Stall

  Published: October 5, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: 2008 Congressional, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Democrats, Gop, Political Scandals, Sex Scandals, Sexuality, Jack Cafferty, Larry Craig, The Situation Room, Cnn

  Jack Cafferty opened his CNN "Situation Room" shtick today at 4:07 p.m. EDT by asking about Larry Craig: Which was worse? Making sexual advances toward a police officer or lying to the whole world by saying you're going to resign your Senate seat and then announcing you're not going to resign? Answer: saying you don't want Craig to

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• MSNBC Republican: Scarborough Wants to 'Write a Campaign Check' to Bob Kerrey

  Published: October 8, 2007, 10:54 am

  Tags: 2008 Congressional, Campaign Finance, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Political Scandals, Bob Kerrey, Hillary Clinton, Joe Scarborough, Norman Hsu, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Video

  Joe Scarborough: MSNBC's kind of Republican. The sort who not only tells Democrats they're "very badly" needed in Washington. Who not merely expresses the desire to write them a campaign check. But who even volunteers [tongue-in-cheek, one would hope] to do illegal check-bundling for them a la Norman Hsu. After recently putting in an

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• Clinton Campaign Hires Sandy Berger; Will MSM Report It?

  Published: October 8, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaign 2008, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Double Standards, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Bill Sammon, Greg Kelly, Gretchen Carlson, Hillary Clinton, Sandy Berger, Steve Doocy, Fox Amp Amp Friends, Fnc

  our breaking developing political story, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign adding a controversial new advisor, none other than admitted secret document thief Sandy Berger. Breaking the story this morning, Bill Sammon, a senior White House correspondent for the "Washington Examiner." Bill, you've got to be kidding me.

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• Couric Previews Valerie Plame Interview, No Mention of Leaker Armitage

  Published: October 19, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Academia, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Conspiracy Theories, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Iraq War, Political Scandals, Valerie Plame Wilson, Harry Smith, Katie Couric, Valerie Plame, 60 Minutes, Early Show

  a scandal that embroiled the political elite in Washington....When it was all over, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was charged and convicted of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice. President Bush later commuted sentence, no one was ever charged with knowingly leaking Valerie Plame's name.

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• CBS: Valerie Plame a Victim, Despite Admitting to Being Partisan'

  Published: October 22, 2007, 4:56 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, George W Bush, Iraq War, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Scandals, Valerie Plame Wilson, Harry Smith, Joseph Wilson, Katie Couric, Valerie Plame, 60 Minutes, Early Show

  at glamorous public events, political fund-raisers for the Democratic Party, and in "Vanity Fair" magazine. You know, you're a covert C.I.A. agent for "x" number of years, and suddenly, you know, you're in this Greta Garbo pose in your husband's jaguar. PLAME: It was more trouble than it was worth. And it was... I was not

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• Plame Blows Kisses at CBS, NBC, Bloggers; Husband Hails Hillary

  Published: October 24, 2007, 7:57 am

  Tags: Political Scandals, Valerie Plame Disclosure, 60 Minutes, Cbs, Nbc, Today, Blogs

  and she didn't get it out of political pique. When her husband Joe Wilson popped in, he wrote this: Two people in Washington helped us understand the broader implications of the fight we have found ourselves in: Sid Blumenthal, and Hillary Clinton. They had both been through the character assassination gauntlet, and were able to get us to see

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• CBS Early Show': Clinton Sex Addiction vs. Political Rock Stars'

  Published: October 29, 2007, 1:41 pm

  Tags: Political Scandals, Sex Scandals, Bill Clinton, Harry Smith, Julie Chen, Early Show

  transformed themselves into political rock stars. Strangely, in last week's segment Smith never thought to ask a single question about the affect of Bill Clinton's sex scandals on the marriage. During Monday's segment, Chen described the accusations by the late President Gerald Ford and Betty Ford as chronicled in "Write It When I'm

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• Fame Game: Plame Protests Too Much

  Published: October 29, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: Culture Society, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Political Scandals, Valerie Plame Disclosure, Jack Jacobs, Joe Scarborough, Joe Wilson, Richard Armitage, Valerie Plame, Morning Joe, Msnbc

  With a little help from Joe Scarborough, Valerie Plame Wilson tried this morning to paint herself as someone who, far from seeking "Vanity Fair" fame, had celebrity thrust upon her in a moment of distraction. Right. And try this quick quiz: Q. Is it possible to get through an extended interview of Valerie Plame Wilson without mentioning

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• The Hillary Whitewash Continues

  Published: November 8, 2007, 10:39 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Censorship, Debates, Double Standards, Foreign Policy, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Brent Bozell, Hillary Clinton, Broadcast Television, Wire Services Media Companies, Abc, Associated Press, Cbs, Cnn, Nbc, New York

  can't afford are cheap political distortions." Differences on the meaning of what the Senator said aside, this mop-up work should be the work of the Clinton campaign's political and PR divisions, not that of a supposedly impartial and neutral news entity. The examples of Democrat malfeasance with the words of Republicans are many; of

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