So while we're waiting for news on the current happenings of gay and drug-adled Pastor Ted, here's a very interesting backstory from CJR:
The unraveling of Pastor Ted Haggard, replete with allegations of gay sex and meth use, may have contributed to last week's Democratic sweep in Congress. Karl Rove recently admitted as much. "The profile of corruption in the exit polls was bigger than I'd expected," said Rove. "Abramoff, lobbying, Foley and Haggard added to the general distaste that people have for all things Washington, and it just reached critical mass."
But the tale of how this latest clerical fall from grace nearly failed to make headlines before the vote is a cautionary one for every journalist who has ever wondered when she has enough to go with a story. Paula Woodward, an investigative reporter at KUSA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Denver, lost her chance to break one of the biggest stories to come out of Colorado since the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey -- in part because of the Jon Benet story.
