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September 4, 2008
Posted: 01:27 PM ET
NEW YORK — Kwame Kilpatrick is back in the news. He’s Detroit’s mayor and prolific sex text messenger and today he pleaded guilty to obstruction. But his was not the first sex scandal to bring down a politician and it certainly won’t be the last. ![]() Three years ago Governor Jim McGreevy left the New Jersey statehouse and his wife, declaring himself a gay American. New York lost its crime fighting governor, Elliott Spitzer, when he was caught with a prostitute. And toe tapper Larry Craig is losing his senate seat come January. Ah, the private foibles of middle aged male politicians. Is it weakness, perversion, corruption? Or is it just to be expected? Are politicians having more illicit sex now than they have in the past? What’s changed? Not the sex. Not the men. But here’s what has: The press. We now prefer to report on sex than to dare speak the real dirty word in politics: issues. Gas prices, mortgage mess, health care, the war. But now, with so much at stake, its time to start focusing on what our elected officials are doing in office. Not on what they are doing in bed. That’s the Last Word. –Jami Floyd, In Session anchor Filed under: Jami Floyd Last Word |
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