By Westbrook Shortell
The morning after New Hampshire primaries, political commentator Chris Matthews comes out saying that the only reason she is in office is because of the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998.
Ater urging from NOW and other women's organizations NBC president urged Matthews to issue and on air apology.
He did not rebuke his statement that her career was started because of the scandal but "was it fair to imply that Hillary's whole career depended on being a victim of an unfaithful husband? No. And that's what it sounded like I was saying."
This raises the question of are the same standards held to those who are journalists and who have to attribute truth to statements and those who are political commentators and can assume instead?
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