Weinergate reminds us that we need to elect politicians not just based on their policy positions, but on whether we trust their judgment, honesty and integrity as well.
Press RoomAfter more than three weeks of media scrutiny and daily revelations of new "indecent and lewd" conduct, Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) resigned this morning as a member of Congress. Senior Democrats had been calling for Weiner’s departure for days, insisting that the media frenzy around Weinergate had become a national distraction that had crowded out coverage of the Republicans’ radical congressional agenda.
On her Sound Off segment on MSNBC, Nation columnist Melissa Harris-Perry argues that Weinergate is not a distraction, but a reminder that we need to elect politicians not just based on their policy positions, but also because we trust their judgment, honesty and integrity as well.
—Kevin Donohoe
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