https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/26/how-facebook-is-making-politics-safe-for-sin/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 00:39:04 -0400<![CDATA[Drunkenness, affairs, secret gay relationships, dodgy financial dealings, and other sins have been common in public life since the Jewish and Roman historians started documenting them. But for most of American history, most Americans didn&#8217;t want to know, a desire affirmed by last year&#8217;s cringe-inducing memoir by a teenage girlfriend of John F. Kennedy. The demand that politicians actually live up to their virtuous facades, enforced by press and prosecutors for the last few decades, reached its peak in the exposure of Bill Clinton&#8217;s affair with an intern, Monica Lewinsky. And the sanctimonious approach by some press and prosecutors has been — as the national revulsion at the Starr Report, and bipartisan embarrassment at its memory has showed — basically unwelcome.]]>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:15:57 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/26/how-facebook-is-making-politics-safe-for-sin-n280670