NEW YORK –Jim McGreevey is back in the news. His was not the first sex scandal to bring down a politician and it certainly wasn’t the last. Just in the three years since Governor McGreevey left the statehouse and his wife, we’ve also lost Governor Spitzer here in New York to a sex scandal. Toe-tapper Larry Craig is holding on to his Senate seat for dear life. And don’t forget Detroit’s mayor and prolific sex text messenger, Kwame Kilpatrick.

Ah, the private foibles of middle-aged politicians. Is it weakness? Perversion? Corruption? Or is it just to be expected? I mean, do we really think politicians are having more illicit sex now than they have in the past?

What’s changed? Not the men. Not the sex. But here’s what has: the news media that now prefers to report on sex rather than to utter the real dirty word in politics, “issues.”

Gas prices, the mortgage mess, health care, the war. It’s time we start to focus on what our governors and other elected officials are doing in office. Not on what they’re doing in bed.

And that is the Last Word.

–Jami Floyd, In Session anchor