This was rather like an adulterer saying that he was faithful on most days.Barclays has tried its best to present these incidents as the actions of a few rogue traders.
The former speaker is, however, a serial adulterer, who divorced his first wife when she was recovering from cancer, when he was already bedding Marianne, the mistress who became his second wife but was ditched in her turn for Callista, his present one.
For example, none of Mr Gingrich's rivals reminded voters that the former House speaker was indeed a serial adulterer.
Many routine acts of press cruelty shouting through a widow's letterbox, paparazzi making the children of a celebrity adulterer cry are legal.Jack Straw, a former Labour justice secretary, suggested this month that the knottiest aspect of press regulation involves not lies but private things that are true.
And this is especially true, in the view of Democrats, because Mr Clinton won two elections despite being a known adulterer who had lied about previous affairs.The second White House argument is that precedent as well as public opinion points against impeachment.
One attempt was the announcement this week of the "pastoral care" he is receiving from a Methodist minister and two Baptists (one of whom, like the president, is a repentant adulterer).
Such is the Republican leadership's hatred of Mrs Clinton that they would rather back an adulterer than let her win easily.
The nanny who chews Bellow's meat for him before putting it in his mouth is likened to young Artur in "Mr Sammler's Planet" (1970) coughing into his servant's hand.The Bellow that emerges is a serial adulterer, a negligent father and a surprisingly lacklustre public speaker.
His basic argument that it is up to the bloggers to prove the documents are fake does not augur well for the network.As for Ms Kelley, the Republicans say she is a Democratic donor who maligned the sainted Ronald Reagan as a date rapist and castigated Nancy Reagan as an adulterer who had an affair with Frank Sinatra.
Wright was known as a leftist, a pacifist and an adulterer who was feckless to boot.
That, if you think tax avoidance is immoral, is rather like appointing an adulterer to advise the government on how to strengthen the family.This reflects a wider ambiguity about Labour's attitude to business.
