Noel King

Back to a candidate named Gary Hart.

How did he react once he was caught?

I take your point that X leads to Y leads to Z and we end up where we are.

But some of the scandals that have been uncovered, they're not just cheating scandals, right?

They're not just somebody makes a bad decision.

Some of them are like serious crimes, sex crimes.

Is the tabloidification of political journalism also a good thing?

Let me ask you a bit more about relevance.

So we are used to ignoring lawmakers other than the sort of bombastic ones who tend to draw a lot of attention, a lot of headlines.

But then recently, you know, Congress takes a recess, the government shut down and TMZ is chasing Lindsey Graham around Disney World.

And what I saw from people who are not journalists is.

it hit different.

There was this satisfied reaction, like, maybe we should be paying attention to what Congress is up to.

Maybe we should be a little bit more mad at them.

Maybe somebody should be asking Lindsey Graham, what's the deal with the bubble wand?

Do you put any stock in that?

Rumors about his sexuality.

Matt Bai of Rolling Stone.

The book is All the Truth is Out.

The movie based on the book is The Front Runner.