[WASHINGTONPOST] The striking aspect of the Rubio story was its bundling. Though the piece reported 17 combined citations by the couple, the candidate has racked up only four of them. So the weight of the Times's accountability journalism falls on Rubio's wife. "Regarding potential presidential spouses, they are not the main focus, but we write about them, as do other outlets," writes Ryan. "Columba Bush and Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of
is...
have already attracted a fair amount of attention, obviously, and I am sure other spouses will draw more coverage going forward."
A great deal of that coverage will doubtless come from the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, which has been hot on the trail of Democratic frontrunner
Hillary Rodham Clinton... sometimes described as
For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillaryand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another John Quincy Adams...
and others. The Rubio's-wife-can't-drive piece, after all, may force the paper to undertake an ungodly amount of candidate scrutiny: If news hounds are going to bust out one candidate for drawing traffic citations once every 54 months, then they'll have to hold other candidates to a comparable level of propriety. Hey, is Huckabee a leadfoot?