So the Republican Governor of South Carolina had an affair. Yawn. I’m getting pretty bored with Republican scandals. In fact, let’s go ahead and put that word in quotation marks: ho hum, another routine Republican “scandal.”

Here’s what El Rusho had to say:

Blah blah blah, then, “Republicans like sex, too. Up ’til now that’s been debatable. Republicans are these church going, moralistic no-fun-in-life kind of people according to the libs. …for crying out loud, folks, this is inexplicable. …lust is the one human emotion over which you have no control. It can make you do things that in your sane moments you would never do. …But I’ll tell you what. If he were a Democrat it would be a resume enhancement.” Note that clipped out a lot more blah blah blah. Go to Monsieur Le Rush’s website and read the transcript for yourself.

Notice how Rush first uses this to attack liberals. Yes, a Republican cheats on his wife, and it’s liberals fault for thinking the GoP is sexless. Next, notice how the harshest thing Rush can say about the man’s being a cheater is “it’s inexplicable.” Measure that against the words he used to describe Clinton. Or Kennedy maybe. Or Wayne Hayes, Barney Frank, Jim McGreevey, or Eliot Spitzer.

More interesting to me is how Fox news has treated this, specifically, they’re use of the (D) incorrectly. That’s right, the identified the cheater is a Democrat. I wish I could have been there, I mean, which would be worse to your stereotypical South Carolinian? That the governor cheated on his wife, or that somehow a Democrat got elected to Governor?

Thanks to an article on Reddit, other instances of Fox using the wrong political designator for scandalous Republicans have been collected. Take a look:

Mark Foley, Republican Congressman from Florida: wrote perverted e-mails and instant messages to underage male pages.

Pat Toomey, Republican congressman from Pennsylvania: helped write legislation that repealed most of the Glass-Steagall Act, which has led to our current economic crisis.

Lincoln Chaffee, Senator from Rhode Island: favors increased federal funding for health care an increase in the federal minimum wage, affirmative action and gun control. Voted against the Flag Desecration Amendment. Limbaugh and Coulter are both on the record as being very much anti-Chafee.

Ted Stevens, Senator from Alaska: took bribes, and became the fifth sitting senator ever to be convicted by a jury in U.S. history. Wears Hulk ties.

Fox does this all the time—go hit the Google, see if you can find more. Heck, someone probably has a blog dedicated to just this subject.