A CONFLICT OF INTEREST DOUBLE STANDARD? (“What about when the chief spokesman of the U.S. State Department is dating and marries CNN’s Chief International Correspondent? Where were the pundits and academics then?”) It does seem as if Maria Shriver is being treated differently than Amanpour was.

As Peter Morgan and I argued in The Appearance of Impropriety, such double standards are extremely common within the “ethics” establishment.