We’ve seen this before, when the media will suddenly give a lot of publicity to a Democrat scandal for a little while, then it all dies down and is forgotten before the next election. One example that comes to mind is the uproar over Bill Clinton’s last-minute pardons in 2001, especially the one for Marc Rich. There was a brief period in the summer of 1998 when the media acted like they had definitely turned on Clinton for his lies in the Lewinsky investigation, but pretty soon they were back on board.
I remember this. Scandals must have someone from the President's own party cross the line.
For Watergate, it was Senator Howard Baker, Republican from Tennessee, who put truth before party. When he publicly announced that Nixon was probably guilty of malfeasance, and decided to talk to GOP friends, the gig was up for Nixon.
For the Clinton scandal, there was not one Democrat who crossed the line. Many considered it, very carefully, but then the shrill voices in the Senate and leftie talking heads decided to try one last meme, "It's about sex!" And it worked. No Democrat jumped ship, and the impeachment vote and trial results were largely on party lines.
There's no "It's about sex" line this time. Using the IRS will bring over Dems, and spying on the MSM will piss off the MSM. I have a feeling that this one will go farther.
Curiously, the AP phone wiretaps would die away faster than any of them, but for the MSM their own ox was being gored, so this will fire them up about Benghazi and the IRS.