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Calraigh
12/24/08

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David Duchovny +sex addiction+ Daily Mail tennis instructor affair rumour+pending court case+ Daily Mail retraction of rumour (sort of) +Tea Leoni+Billy Bob Thornton+358 variations on a '' LIFE IMITATES ART '' headline and subsequent viral publicity for Californication= biggest ratings ever for Showtime.

That's what you call an an efficient sex scandal.

Or, a load of shite. Depending!
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bjonston
12/24/08

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Picture number 8 turns me on. Except for the hand. But she's hot.
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Derek Coffer
12/24/08

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And what about the ad agency sex-tape scandal? [gawker.com]
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Hydroceph
12/24/08

@Derek Coffer: yes, it's still burned into my retinas. Ugly people shouldn't be allowed to film themselves boinking.
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Seriously
12/25/08

@Hydroceph: I think it was less about ugly and more about boring.

You couldn't tell ugly or not on that tape - just boring.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
12/24/08

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I still haven't forgiven the Edwards. I'm sorry she has cancer and I think I have loved her above all political people ever--true warmth and smarts. But that they went ahead and ran that jackass for Prez is beyond goddamned stupid and irresponsible to me. After what Clinton went through you just don't effing go there.
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jasonelias
12/24/08

@Banjo Kitten: I'm just glad he wasn't on the ticket or anywhere near the front runners when the scandal broke. Although John clearly doesn't have much power on his own, on a ticket, that scandal might have wrecked the Dems chances.
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Tart of Darkness
12/26/08

@Banjo Kitten: Yes. It was a relief that he dropped out. I think he still doesn't quite see that he's a dog. And I partially blame Elizabeth for protecting him from that knowledge at least publicly.
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Weegee's bored
12/24/08

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There's still time left in the year for scandal #11. I think I can pull it off.

Merry Christmas, everyone. It's off to egg nog land.
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Tardy
12/24/08

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What? No Christie Brinkley with the teen-porn-addicted hubby?
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lobstr
12/24/08

@Tardy: ack, I think that's who I was thinking of in my original post... the girl was some sort of secretary to him, right?
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FarleyPapus
12/24/08

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What about Alicia Keyes allegedly stealing Swizz Beatz from his wife?

http://hiphop.popcrunch.com/swizz-beatz-alicia-keys-affair-rumors-debunked/

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bess marvin, girl detective
12/24/08

@FarleyPapus: surprisingly (and not surprisingly) that did not get as much mainstream coverage. white America don't know or care who Swizz Beatz is, but you would think that it would go public on the strength of Alicia's good girl image.
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Sproing
12/24/08

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Sorry, swap #1 with #2. A governor is not a presidential candidate, and Silda does not have cancer. It's a matter of proportion.
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BoKnowsMagic
12/24/08

@Sproing: Yeah, but Edwards' affair kept him from advancing politically where he might not have advanced in anyway, whereas Spitzer's affair not only cost him the highest office he'd yet earned, but was so high-profile, due not only to its cost but also to its patent illegality, hypocrisy, and head-scratching stupidity, that his political career is way more over than Edwards, which had arguably already hit a wall.
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The One
12/24/08

@Bulkington: How did Edwards's affair keep him from advancing politically? Wasn't he already out of the race when the story finally broke?

To me, the whole "I only cheated on my wife while her cancer was in remission" reeks of the ultimate smarm, and out-sleazes Spitzer naked except for black socks.

As someone else alluded to, Vito "The Cheato" Fosella blew up his career with a DWI arrest that wound up revealing his second family.
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BoKnowsMagic
12/24/08

@The One: You're right. My bad. But again: what did it cost him? He didn't lose office, for which he had sworn to uphold the law, by breaking a law he had prosecuted people for by way of earning his way to the office he lost, and (as far as we know) he wasn't serially cheating on his wife with sex workers whom he begged to let him fuck without a condom.
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The One
12/24/08

@Bulkington: It may have cost Edwards the chance to be Obama's Attorney General, or even yet another run for the White House.

Using his family to show what a "great family guy" he is while cheating on his wife is bad enough, but cheating on her while she has breast cancer repulses just about everyone. And people remember that shit.

Then again, he, Spitzer and Fosella all got what they deserved.
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lobstr
12/24/08

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What about that one guy who was doing his 18 year old secretary and was paying her in expensive art to keep her around or some shit..? Can't remember the name (obvs!) but he was one of those notable business dudes.
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lobstr
12/24/08

@lobstr: Yeah.. it's Christie Brinkley's husband.. whoops
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wattznext
12/24/08

@lobstr: Whew...for a second I thought you meant me!
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