A popular pastime in the conservative blogosphere is the “name that party” game, which is based on the observation that, when reporting political corruption cases, the media almost always reports party affiliation when the politician in question is a Republican, but rarely when a Democrat. I don’t play the “name that party” game at Internet Scofflaw because it’s just too easy. I prefer to focus on actual media lies and misconduct rather than general observations of bias.
Now the AP has given me a chance to play, with this story on the latest Gary Condit development:
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former Congressman Gary Condit claiming author Dominick Dunne slandered him over the death of a young female intern.
Condit claimed that Dunne falsely accused him on the “Larry King Live” show of involvement in the 2001 disappearance of government intern Chandra Levy, with whom Condit acknowledged having an affair. . .
Condit, a former Republican congressman from California’s Central Valley, has denied any involvement in or knowledge of Levy’s May 2001 disappearance at age 24, or her death. However, he acknowledged to investigators that they had an intimate relationship.
(Emphasis mine.) Condit was, in fact, a Democrat.
(Via Instapundit.)
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