Shortly thereafter, a salacious video for Miley Cyrus's Adore You materialised, in which the singer runs a sly hand down her body to signify that she too will procure her own pleasure – a routine she's also decided to play up on her current Bangerz tour.
I am certain that the expectation the inclusion of Ukip might make for salacious TV has also not been far from TV executives' thoughts.
Before we reach the gruesome climax, we're served up a degrading onslaught of rapes, murders, torture, salacious sex, genocide, castration and even news footage of real-life executions.
Now her feel for human nature and her excellent knowledge of Russian language and culture, combined with her research among Russian (and German) sources, have produced a worthy sequel.Whereas other historians have focused recently on the salacious details of life at the top of Stalin's Soviet Union, Ms Merridale's approach is from the bottom up, coupled with her own careful but incisive analysis.
Along the way, Mr Glyn displays a dry humour and a taste for salacious gossip.
Last year, as the salacious details of Mr McCourt's messy divorce dominated the headlines and the team floundered on the field, the Dodgers' attendance plummeted to 36,236 spectators a game far below their average of 45,350 from 2004-09.Moreover, their crosstown rivals, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, have made a powerful bid to supplant the Dodgers as the area's most beloved baseball team.
Everything about the American system is intolerable, and each unsavoury nugget presses fast on the last: campaign spending, child poverty, Chinese spies, the salacious press, the war on drugs, and senators' immunity from tickets for bad driving.
Add to this toxic cocktail repeated shots of scandal, from Abu Ghraib to Mark Foley, a Republican congressman who exchanged salacious e-mails with adolescent pages online, and the wonder is that their ratings are not even lower.Iraq is the prime example of a principled policy, poorly executed.
The resignation last month of Mark Foley, a Republican congressman accused of sending salacious e-mails to young congressional pages, is merely the latest blow.Worse than sleaze is pork.
But, because many of the salacious rumours about Mr Clinton have now been substantiated, the Drudge style of journalism has acquired some respectability, much as Watergate made deep-throat journalism acceptable.
The current furore over more salacious issues, such as whether and how he got his star telecoms analyst, Jack Grubman, to change a stock recommendation on AT&T, is diverting public attention from bigger problems.Losses from aggressively-sold credit cards and consumer loans are on the rise; the brokerage operation has not cut costs in line with declining prospects.
