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By Peter Bregman
Special to CNNEditor’s note: Peter Bregman is chief executive of Bregman Partners Inc., a global management consulting firm, and the author of “Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change”. He writes a weekly column, How We Work, for HarvardBusiness.org.
NEW YORK (CNN) — “Daddy,” my 7-year-old daughter, Isabelle, asked me this morning at breakfast, “Who is Mark Sanford, and why is he on the news?”
I received two phone calls about Sanford on Wednesday afternoon. One was from a liberal Democrat who was outraged. “What a hypocrite!” he said. The caller asked whether I knew what he had said about a case of an unfaithful congressman. “He said, ‘He lied under a different oath, and that’s the oath to his wife.’ And all that family values stuff! C’mon.”
The other was from a conservative Republican. “It’s terrible what’s happening to Sanford.” He told me, “He’s a good guy. The press is tearing him apart! They’re lingering on all the sordid details. Give the guy a break.”
Here’s what’s interesting: When I asked each of them about the impeachment of Bill Clinton, they flip-flopped. The liberal Democrat was angry at the press, and the conservative Republican was disgusted with the former president. …
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/06/25/bregman.sanford/index.html
This author’s headline did not lead me to believe that a reference to Bill Clinton would be made. However that reference was made and the results of that reference produced what many would have expected. There was a flip-flop.
Perhaps bias was the foundation for one of the flip-flops but factoring in the press during the neocon’s celebration of an impending impeachment of Ex-President Bill Clinton is warranted. It has been said that it was the press and the neocons who pushed for Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Nobody Marched To Impeach Bill Clinton!
And what ABOUT the Republican’s “FAMILY VALUES” campaign? The family values list is getting to be as long as the list the Democrats called the “Culture of Corruption”. From stalls in men’s rooms to Congressional pages and and so on goes the family values list. It sure does seem like if the right OPPORTUNITY comes along, neither “family values” nor “core values” will stand the way of that OPPORTUNITY.
