I've noticed, for the past couple of years, several conservative and moderate bloggers -- and a few columnists, too -- have taken up the game of "guess the party." That is, every time a newspaper reports on a scandal involving a politician, the reader is supposed to guess the party of that politician, based on clues within the article. Most Republicans have their party affiliation mentioned in the first paragraph of an article, while often the Democrats see a very late mention or no mention at all. It has been taken by these bloggers and columnists to mean that we have a press which very clearly shows its sides, even though it pretends to be an apolitical body.
I take it to mean that Republican scandals are so much less common than Democrat scandals, that, unless there is an early mention of the exception, we should assume the rule: the crook, liar, scoundrel, or whatever rogue it may be is probably a Democrat.
Otherwise, they'd have mentioned it right off the bat. Right?
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