Remember a day or two ago, when there were reports that the Department of Homeland Security had improperly been used in an attempt to track down those AWOL Texas legislators? Well, if that tale interests you, Joshua Micah Marshall has been all over it. And he ain't letting up until he digs up enough to get the mainstream press to judge it a major story — something he helped achieve with Trent Lott's remarks about segregation.
And I don't mean to suggest that this is unfair or wrong of Marshall. No matter what public figures do, it doesn't seem to become a scandal until the press is willing to accept it as such, which is why Clinton's Whitewater deal was, and Bush's baseball stadium isn't.