It is "a shocking scandal" that Jews in Germany are molested, Mrs Merkel told the Berlin crowd.
They pointed to an even more shocking scandal, the case of Representative Daniel E. Sickles of New York.
Perhaps this will be the last church scandal, but it will not be the last deeply shocking scandal in Irish life.
He left her to marry Elizabeth Taylor after months of intense gossip about their affair, which at the time was considered a shocking scandal.
In 2009 Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Healthcare Commission, the regulator of NHS care standards at the time, said it was the most shocking scandal he had investigated.
A senior Conservative MP has described the continuing cover-up of Britain's complicity in the kidnapping and torture of detainees in the "war on terror" – and of who authorised it – as a shocking scandal that must be resolved without further delay.
For the opposition, shadow chancellor Ed Balls described the affair as "yet another shocking scandal involving the banks and underlines the need for fundamental reform and cultural change".
Last month, in the most shocking scandal since the world found out Kate Moss was a cocaine user, the story of the Arnold Schwarzenegger affair broke.
After last night's violent, pulse-pounding episode, we're not sure how many more shocking "Scandal" twists we can take, even though we want them so, so bad.
"What is being uncovered now is one of the most shocking scandals in American political history," he said.
