LISA SCHIFFREN: “You know, I am all for Fossella resigning. But I’m a little unclear why David Paterson, the serially adulterous Governor of NY, who recently replaced moral paragon Eliot Spitzer, gets a free pass.”

Fossella is a Republican. Paterson isn’t. And he’s black, and differently-abled to boot. Thus, a much higher threshold for him. That’s how media outcries work.