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I pointed out on another post that Freedom of Speech, including media has gone way to far. Your point as to "as long as it doesn't hurt anyone" is a good point. I think that people take their Freedom of speech way to far because it was not meant to harm anyone. Our founding fathers never spoke like this about each other nor did they report on each others personal lives. Only their professional lives. We as a society dove way to far into politicians personals lives and base this on our judgements of them. Are they a good leader and decision maker should be the question we are really asking? Not do they wear womens underwear!!! LOL although funny and entertaining it probably wasn't our place to ever know that he was doing this in the first place!!!

To be a perfect citizen is too much to ask. I'm from the SE MI area and the issue with the Detroit mayor is not that he had an affair but that he lied about it. Police officers assigned to his protection team were fired for reporting his affair to thier internal affiars dept. His private behavior would have stayed private if he had not crossed the line and publicly fired the police officers. He got caught lieing in a wistleblower lawsuit, lost it and lied to city counsel so the cash broke city would pay millions to cover up that he lied and wrongfully fired those police officers.
Its not his personal behavior that is under fire but his public behavoir. The people of the city and state have the right to know how thier tax money is being spent. The people have the right to know how thier city is being managed or mismanaged. It all goes into making an informed choice next election.

Had the mayor used his private cell to text his mistress the affair would have stayed private. But they used city issued cells and the text messages became govt. correspondance. The texts prove that they lied under oath.

scandles and more scandles drive the gossip of the nation of ours ...LOL

I agree peacebe

YEP

I bet there are a lot of those that we don't hear about!

Some things aren't worth knowing about.  The scandals about the Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe important? Only if they talked about what's going on in the oval office.

There are too many scandal sheets nowadays.  If they can't find something, someone will make one up -- take things out of context.

Sometimes the made up ones are more fun!

One thing about the govt, you can always start a rumor!!

ahhh...the power of technology!

Makes it quicker, but you don't get to see the looks on their faces! 

Sometimes when the scandals are made up, you can't tell the real from the false.

Wiley Coyote found out that the Acme stuff didn't hold up -- no guarantee!