WaPo’s Sally Quinn was asked to come on MSNBC and talk about the Catholic sex abuse scandal. She didn’t mince any words, calling the scandal “the Vatican’s Watergate, and the pope is Nixon.” You’ll recall that Quinn’s family knows a thing or two about Watergate; her husband, Ben Bradlee, was the top editor at WaPo during the original Watergate.
For a more, um, measured look at the scandal, USA Today’s Cathy Lynn Grossman went on the same show on Tuesday and was a tad less hyberbolic:
