Nikongate, complete with smoking lens(*)

Anonymous Lefty has an excellent post on the tabloid character assassination of Mark Latham over his contretemps with a press photographer following him around when he was with his children.

As Armaniac comments:

"...like we all wouldn't get the impulse if some useless slimebag was perving on us with our kids.

Same papers that would run a hint of a child abuse story like a bus on the smell of an oily rag.

Hypocrites. Latham has heaps of flaws, but sticking up for the privacy of his kids isn't one of them."

*hat-tip to Andrew in the above thread for coming up with a descriptor so perfect I just had to rip it off for the post title.