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"In most families this would have been handled completely privately." Thus NBC's Chip Reid quoted Wendy Vitter, even as his report refused to allow her to do so. Reid publicized her husband's apology after he was "linked to an alleged prostitution ring." What made the link newsworthy was that her husband is David Vitter, the Republican from Louisiana, "one of the most conservative members of the Senate, frequently invoking family values in his campaigns." Thus, Reid implied, it was Vitter who decided to make his sexual behavior a matter of public scrutiny, not the news media.
According to prosecutors, the $300-a-visit prostitutes whose services Vitter appears to have availed himself of were operated by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called DC Madam, Reid reported. ABC's Jake Tapper (subscription required) covered Vitter's hypocrisy last week; NBC and CBS both covered Palfrey's publicity (text link) about her little black book last April.
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