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I suspect that the woman caller who said she was sick of the press making stories out of politicians' sex lives echoed a wide-spread sentiment. I would have hoped that, particularly after the Clinton/Lewinsky story we would have learned something about both the triviality and the hypocracy of alleged politician sex-life stories. The bigger story here should be one of journalistic ethics. Many of Nigel's comments sound like the worn-out battle cry of Clinton's accusers ("He lied"). Most of us don't care if someone lies about their sex life, primarily because we believe that the questions are inappropriate to begin with. Perhaps this will be the sex scandal where the spotligh finally turns and focuses, not on the accused, but the accuser.

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