Slime Time

Mother Jones has a good analysis about how media with different political agendas react to the “sex rumours” about John Kerry.

“What’s a respectable media outlet to do when a story too juicy to ignore — but sleazy and unverified, and from a discredited, though occasionally accurate, source — starts making the rounds? Ignore it and miss the story? Pile on and look like scumbags when it turns out to be bogus?”