Who Killed Jack Ryan?

Josh Marshall posted this just before Obama's speech:

Obama probably would have won the Illinois Senate seat in November by a solid margin regardless. Now it's not clear that it'll even be a contest after his opponent's candidacy collapsed amid his would-be party constituents close-mindedness about his desire to see his movie star wife have sex with other men in Paris sex clubs. So he was sort of a martyr to Babbitry, you might say.

That's pretty lazy reporting, Josh. Republicans didn't destroy Jack Ryan's candidacy, except in the sense that they legitimized prying into candidates' sexual histories back in the 90s. On the contrary, the liberal Chicago Tribune won an injunction to open Ryan's divorce records just in case there might have been something to interest voters [note the distinction between that and something that is in the voters' interest to know--ed.].

And no, Ryan did not want to see other men have sex with his movie star wife. He wanted to have sex with her while other men (and women) watched. Can't say I blame him.

UPDATE: Josh corrects---sort of. He acknowledges that Ryan wanted to be an exhibitionist rather than a voyeur, but fails to mention that Ryan's demise was the result of the Chicago Tribune's investigation/violation of privacy rather than the workings of the Illinois Republican machinery. You tell me which is the bigger error.