Opinion Europe

Big, Bad Wulff

The German president's personal-loan scandal has become a trial by media.

January 13, 2012

They were young and attractive, this presidential couple, and the media loved them. Then Fate took a cruel swipe at the First Husband. He had taken advantage, he was not telling the whole truth, and the press was going to beat it out of him. He would go down in an orgy of recrimination and self-righteousness.

Bill Clinton? Yes, but also German President Christian Wulff, a head of state with largely ceremonial functions, who has been...

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