Word: luridly
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Arguing in the name of "the children" is an irresistible device, and Republicans have no monopoly on it. (They would have to pry it from Hillary Clinton's cold, dead hands.) But it's also an uncontrollable force. In a media culture that focuses on the most lurid and scary--as opposed to the greatest--threats to kids, Republicans are suddenly at the mercy of a social force that used to work for them. In his disgrace as in his career, Foley has focused America on the most emotional of law-and-order issues--a little too well, perhaps...
...thirds of Americans aware of the lurid e-mails set to congressional pages by a G.O.P congressman believe Republican leaders tried to cover up the scandal - and one quarter of them say the affair makes them less likely to vote for Republican candidates in their districts come November. Those are among the findings of a new TIME poll conducted this week among 1,002 randomly-selected voting-age Americans...
...Family Action, said in a statement that the revulsion from Americans shows that society recognizes "limits to tolerance of our culture's anything-goes view of sexuality." Tom Minnery, the group's senior vice president of government and public policy, used the statement to add that the lurid episode might discredit "the politically correct notion fed to us by those on the left that obscenity is just another form of free speech...
...Dennis Hastert rose to power because of a sex scandal, and now another one eight years later is threatening to take him down. The controversy around former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned last Friday after e-mails and instant messages that showed him making inappropriate and at times lurid comments to Capitol Hill pages, has now shifted to the questions that have defined every Washington scandal since Watergate: which higher-ups knew, when they knew it, and whether there was a cover-up. Hastert, as the leader of the Republicans in the House, is getting the closest scrutiny...
...scandal involving Mark Foley, the Florida congressman who resigned last Friday after the discovery of lurid e-mails and instant messages he sent to teenage congressional pages, has the potential to reshape the election landscape. It was the latest blow in a bad week of news for Republican congressmen getting ready to leave town to campaign - following a congressional report linking the White House to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and showing dozens more contacts with him than the White House had admitted, and a book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward strongly suggesting the Administration has mislead the public about...