Word: scandalizer
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...dueling outrages? "Without discounting the real roots and feeling of anti-Semitism both men have, most of this is really about drawing attention to a European campaign no one cares about," says Lorrain de Saint-Affrique, a political strategist who advised Le Pen in the 1980s. "Le Pen needs scandal to be elected. Dieudonné is an entertainer using politics to promote his career. Outrage generates headlines - and both men need those." Yet another thing the two have in common...
...priest-meets-girl drama that's now a President-admits-baby scandal. According to a paternity suit filed in Paraguay last week, Fernando Lugo was 48 years old when, a decade ago, he began an amorous relationship with a 16-year-old girl, Viviana Carrillo, in the impoverished San Pedro province. At the time Lugo was a Roman Catholic bishop - and Carrillo was preparing for the sacrament of confirmation. Lugo denies that the affair began when Carrillo was a minor. But she says she was "seduced by the way he talked, his pretty words, his beautiful expressions," according...
...century dictators like General Alfredo Stroessner. Lugo has since pushed for essential measures like land reform. What Paraguay is getting instead, at least for the moment, is "a telenovela," says respected investigative journalist Mabel Rehnfeldt of the newspaper ABC in the capital, Asunción. Yet she predicts the scandal will not damage Lugo's presidency too badly - for reasons that reflect both Latin America's machismo and its modernization. "Many Paraguayans on the one hand will say, 'Here's a man simply demonstrating he's a man,' " says Rehnfeldt, "while others will say, 'This is the 21st century...
...health-care reform and an offensive against Paraguay's deep-seated official and business corruption. "These are the things Paraguayans care more about him confronting at this point," says Rehnfeldt. "If he starts delivering on them, then his popularity won't take too big a hit from the paternity scandal." If he doesn't, however, Paraguayans might make Lugo pay not just for his failed promises as President, but also for his broken vows as a priest...
...down the Teachers' Retirement System and other firms for campaign funds for Blagojevich, and also of trying to extort one of the producers of the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby. He has been under indictment since October, the 13th person charged in the ongoing Illinois pay-to-play scandal that prosecutors said traces back to even before Blagojevich became governor. Cellini has denied any wrongdoing. (Read "The Fall of the House of Blagojevich...