Major DUH!
Try to imagine, for the sake of argument of course, the firestorm that would have resulted had it been George Bush, Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon who was receiving oral sex from an intern in the White House.
It would have been "Lights Out" from Day One. Presidency over. The NOW gang would be camped out in Lafayette Park with candles until the sexual predator president resigned his office and boarded Marine One in disgrace.
There is no way in hell that any Republican president would survive a scandal like that. And everybody knows it. But because the sexual predator was a beloved "Democrat", not only did the NOW gang not make a peep about it, but they sung his praises and attacked those who dared to suggest that there was a problem with a president of the United States soliciting and receiving sexual favors from his underlings. An act, by the way, that would get any run-of-the-mill office manager immediately fired from his job.
The Monica Lewinksy affair settled the issue once and for all regarding whether or not there is liberal bias in the media.
What you say is true. However, you also have to remember who the constituencies of the parties are. The Rats are composed of dozens of small groups who want their piece of the pie. They don't care what the other constituencies want, so long as they get their piece. These are the people that continue to vote Barney Frank into office even after he was caught with an underage male prostitution ring running out of his office. Does anyone really believe he didn't know what was going on? His constituents didn't care, because he brought home the bacon.
Even if the scandals had been covered by the press properly, Clinton would have kept much of his base because the core constituencies of the Rats simply don't have a problem with perjury and extramarital affairs. A clear example is the recent issue with Trent Lott. There were a lot of Pubbies calling for his resignation. Robert Byrd made far more inflammatory comments, and these were reported, but he Rats didn't have a problem with Byrd, because they knew that at the end of the day, he'd bring home the bacon.
Post is too long already, but the simple fact is that a scandal will never hurt a Rat like it hurts a Pubbie, because most Rat voters don't care whether their candidate had an extramarital affair with a subordinate, committed perjury or left a 29 year old girl underwater in a car for nine hours so he could sober up and come up with a story, as long as he brings home the bacon.