Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's far from the only oddity in today's news. In Washington, it's now Republicans, especially old squares like Henry Hyde and Dan Burton, who find themselves embroiled in sex scandals...
...Lewinsky affair it had been hard to do as long as Gingrich stayed behind the curtain, venturing forth only to make high-minded statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude. But on Wednesday he went before the microphones--without Judiciary committee chairman Henry Hyde--and trampled all over the idea of a censure deal that would pre-empt impeachment proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed-door meeting about expanding the hearings to include Clinton's campaign-finance abuses, the Administration's transfer of satellite technology to China, and the many other scandals known...
According to Salon magazine staffers, Washington bureau chief Jonathan Broder was fired because he promised his boss he would keep his strong objection to Salon's controversial Henry Hyde expos? to himself -- and then broke that agreement by talking to the Washington Post. Broder committed a "fundamental violation of the trust that any organization must have in its employees," Salon editor David Talbot told the New York Times, in what has become the official version of the events that led to Broder's ouster...
...Broder tells a very different story. He never promised Talbot he would keep quiet, he told TIME Daily -- in fact, the Washington Post learned that Broder was unhappy only when they were given his name by David Talbot himself. Broder says he had taken several calls about the Hyde story -- and delivered as many "no comments" -- when the Post's Howard Kurtz told him that Talbot had identified him as the loudest internal dissenter to the story. "He put my name into the public arena," says Broder. "I had never told them I would keep quiet, but I did until...
...attacks, press hue and cry -- and that Salon didn't need any more bad press. Come on. Talbot brags about the 400,000 new readers the story netted him, calls breaking news stories "free p.r.," and declared in the Post that "it was right for us to pull Henry Hyde's pants down." Forgiving Broder -- or better still, running his dissent in Salon -- would have gotten Talbot the best press he's had all week...