Popeye
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Doug Hampton, the husband of the staffer GOP RW hypocrite John Ensign was sleeping with, sent a letter (below) to Faux News detailing the affair and literally pleading for help, a full 5 days before Ensign finally confessed. Apparently, Faux didn't deem it worthy of investigation or mention...
This just keeps getting better doesn't it? First we have the "family values" Promise Keeper Ensign exposed as a hypocrite and using public money to double his mistress's salary and add her son to the payroll. ...And now we have evidence that Republican propaganda channel Faux News was sitting on evidence of the affair...Can you imagine if Ensign had been a Democrat? ...
Las Vegas Sun: Spouse of Ensign’s mistress sought help in letter to Fox News
Full text of Doug Hampton's letter to Faux News
This just keeps getting better doesn't it? First we have the "family values" Promise Keeper Ensign exposed as a hypocrite and using public money to double his mistress's salary and add her son to the payroll. ...And now we have evidence that Republican propaganda channel Faux News was sitting on evidence of the affair...Can you imagine if Ensign had been a Democrat? ...
In a letter dated five days before Sen. John Ensign’s public confession of an extramarital affair, Doug Hampton pleaded to a national Fox News anchorwoman for help in exposing the senator’s “heinous conduct and pursuit” of Hampton’s wife.
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In his letter, Hampton, a former top administrative aide in Ensign’s Capitol Hill office, said: “The actions of Senator Ensign have ruined our lives and careers and left my family in shambles. We have lost significant income, suffered indescribable pain and emotional suffering. We find ourselves today with an overwhelming loss of relationships, career opportunities and hope for recovery. Our pursuit of justice continues to place me and my family in harm’s way as we fear for our well being.”
Las Vegas Sun: Spouse of Ensign’s mistress sought help in letter to Fox News
Full text of Doug Hampton's letter to Faux News