Monday, June 28, 2004

Ain't We Got Fun?

Drudge reports that some news organizations are scrambling to get public access to the sealed records of John Kerry's divorce after their big "success" in getting a tame Los Angeles judge to open the sealed records of Illinois Senate candidate Jack Ryan and his ex-wife over both their objections. Aside from the fact that filings in nasty divorce cases are the equivalent of legally encouraged slander, what do you think the chances are that a member of the judiciary will find a "public right to know" for the sealed papers from a Democrat's messy divorce?

There seems to be an informal rule of modern political life that Donks get to choose what they reveal. We haven't seen Kerry's full military, financial, and medical records and we haven't seen Teresa's full financial records either. It was a big scoop the other day when the LA Times estimated that she was actually a billionaire instead of a half-billionaire. Heck, we still haven't seen Bill Clinton's medical records and they were likely some really juicy reading.