Posted on 07/06/2004 10:17:37 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The "public's right to know" has received a thorough vetting the past couple of weeks with release of a U.S. Senate candidate's sealed divorce records, the contents of which were sufficiently embarrassing to cause him to withdraw from the race.
Republican candidate Jack Ryan's divorce files, which were opened at the behest of the Chicago Tribune and a television station, revealed that Ryan had taken his wife to a "sex club" and asked her to have sex with him in front of others.
Ryan and his former wife sought to keep the particulars of their divorce private; just days after the media managed to release them, Ryan dropped out of the race. Who can blame him?
The media's latest intrusion into what once was private space has spawned their next challenge: the unsealing of Sen. John F. Kerry's sealed divorce records, which he understandably has declared off limits. We shall see how much respect he gets and whose double standard slides by uncontested.
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