You may remember Teddy Partridge’s post on Howard Kurtz, who for weeks obsessed about where David Letterman put his penis while at the same time ignored where Sen John Ensign put his, despite the public interest in Ensign’s behaviour as a public official, his infidelity (Letterman was neither a public official or married at the time), and Ensign’s known membership in the secretive Washington C STREET christian organization, the Senator’s possible ethical violations during the cover-up, and the Senator’s refusal to resign:

As long as prurient “media critic” Howard Kurtz, Other Guys’ Wieners correspondent, is given WaPo ink and pixels to write this on the front page of Saturday’s Style section, it obscures what non-entertainer and actual federal officeholder John Ensign has done that’s illegal:

No matter the motive, the tangled case centers on a classic love triangle: Stephanie Birkitt, Letterman’s longtime assistant, had previously dated the talk-show host before moving in with Halderman.

When Halderman saw the two embrace at the end of a private road near his Norwalk, Conn., home, “he felt betrayed,” Arnot said in an interview Friday. “He felt he was the backup. He felt lied to. He felt very angry, more at Letterman than at his girlfriend. . . . Joe was furious, beside himself, that this was being thrown in his face.”

Will Kurtz ever write about about John Ensign’s actual wrongdoing: putting his cuckolded chief of staff into a lobbyist job, making calls to get him clients, meeting with those clients and his former employee within the already absurdly short one-year no-lobbying window and then contacting federal agencies on behalf of those clients of his former chief of staff-turned-lobbyist? Asking another Senator, Tom Coburn, to be the adulterers’ go-between to negotiate a pay-off? And getting his own parents to write a check for $96,000 to the aggrieved family?

Will Howard Kurtz ever write about where John Ensign put his wiener

Well Howard has finally gotten around to it, actually he didn’t but Cynthia McFadden of ABC did and he interviewed her today about the story on his CNN show, Reliable Sources.

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