"Name that Party" at ABC and NBC

ABC and NBC can't get around to identifying the party affiliation of disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer. For the 2nd night in a row, both networks avoiding identifying Spitzer as a member of the Democratic party. But when a GOP Senator is caught in scandal, the party affiliation is front and center. Literally. Here's how ABC opened the evening news on August 28, 2007, after the Larry Craig scandal broke:

"Good evening. A Republican Senator is fighting to save his political career and personal reputation....”

And here's NBC's Brian Williams that same night:

“We begin this evening with a drama that is the talk of the nation's capital and the talk of the state of Idaho tonight. It is the story of a Republican United States Senator, arrested for an alleged sexual advance to an undercover police officer in an airport men's room in Minneapolis....”

Hmm. Odd that networks develop amnesia when talking about Democrats embroiled in scandal. But the amnesia miraculously clears when they do a story on Republicans. Stingray has more.