Since the Wikileaks page went up, there's been a steady drip of damaging news items for months.
In recent weeks, there has been a cascade of damaging news about the environment, from dangerously high smog levels in the capital to a study that found 10 percent of domestically grown rice contaminated with heavy metals.
The show – via Kate McKinnon's always brilliant Kellyanne Conway impression – seems to subscribe to the theory that Trump tweets to distract from damaging news, although Alec Baldwin's Trump argued that he's simply got a "bad" brain.
The dispute came to light on a day when Mr. DiFrancesco said that suggestions that he might quit the governor's race were absurd, even after the latest in a wave of damaging news reports.
Ms Stewart is on trial, alongside her former Merrill Lynch stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, for allegedly lying to federal investigators over her sale of shares in the drugs company ImClone Systems in December 2001 ahead of damaging news that sent the share price tumbling.
Peter Bacanovic, the Merrill Lynch stockbroker who arranged Ms. Stewart's ImClone stock sale, was in Europe when his name first appeared in the papers; he had arranged the sale the day before damaging news for ImClone broke last December.
A smoldering political scandal that could harm Chancellor Angela Merkel flared anew on Monday when Germany's biggest newspaper confirmed that the president, Christian Wulff, had made a menacing telephone call to its editor in an unsuccessful effort to snuff out a damaging news story.
It had to sack two senior executives in Russia for allegedly turning a blind eye to bribes paid by a subcontractor to secure electricity supplies for its St Petersburg outlets.When damaging news breaks, IKEA has an admirable habit of coming clean.
As Mr. Kerry opened a three-day push on the environment timed to the observance of Earth Day, this Thursday, his campaign also worked to play down two new polls that showed President Bush's standing with voters improving relative to the senator's, even after a month of damaging news for the White House.
The administration's response quickly jumping to the NSA's defense is in line with its previous pattern of standing in front of the agency whenever damaging news leaked about its practices.
