Aw. Looks like I hurt someone’s feelings, but hell if I know how. I haven’t posted anything substantive on this board in five years or more and admit it, so it says something about you that my MPSIMSes apparently frustrate you enough to make such a weak swipe at me.
Personally, I have no idea what the nature of the relationship between him and his wife is, and I’m guessing that the National Enquirer didn’t check. For all I know they have an open relationship and she picked this woman for him. I don’t want to know.
If it was about correcting harm, the National Enquirer should tell the wife, not me. To the extent that his behavior harms his wife I have to think it only magnifies it to have it as the lead on Extra.
Not so far from you there - I have not looked at the article at all and don’t really care to - just took the thread title at face value and assumed he was caught by his wife.
I am constitutionally fine with putting cheaters in stocks, but not terribly interested in reading the lurid details.
Did he get busted by a guy dressed like a tree?
Cool it, both of you.
No, but he did get swarmed by a group of jilted wives on his way out.
Your parallel sucks. He exposes people getting away with crimes, not people who have fibbed to family members.
I know! It wasn’t until I read the article that I learned they were different people.
I have heard speculation on the morning commute radio that Hansen may have been the target of a sting in this matter. What’s the straight dope on this?
(“Sting” as in entrapment.)
Just to head off a nitpick, a sting is not the same thing as entrapment.
So he should only cheat if he is breaking new ground (so to speak)?
“Head off”, or “beat some other doper to the punch”? 
Possibly both, but I was hoping that if I pointed out that not everybody believes the two things are the same, we wouldn’t have to have a long debate about whether they are equivalent or not.
The National Enquirer followed him and taped him, I believe.
There are two ways this story could have developed:
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Someone tipped off NE, and they followed him on his buisness trips for a couple months, then taped him meeting a female friend. Fairly standard procedure, I assume, for the tabloid type of journalism, taking advantage of an opportunity as it presented itself.
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Someone at NE decided they didn’t like Hansen, and decided to dig up any kind of dirt they can. (Possibly even hiring a lady to entice Hansen. The story on the Washington Post/Entertainment section states that he had been dating her for only four months.)
I don’t think #2 absolves Hansen vis-a-vis his wife in any way, but journalists “creating” news? Not professional. 
Does that mean all of us, or can we politely ask MPB in Salt Lake what he meant by:
Because I happen to know Hades pretty well and I am rather baffled by this comment. I mean, at least the latter half. I am very familiar with Hades and rather think MPB in Salt Lake has him confused with someone else!
The answer is probably going to be insulting or turn this into a conversation about Hades. So please let it go or send MPB in Salt Lake a private message.
Ok, thank you for the response.
I think we’re more likely to find it in Miss Caddell (Trystin’ Kristyn).
I don’t like Hansen’s gig a tiny bit, but it’s not quite accurate to say that adultery is morally equal to pedophilia.
It used to be. Adultery used to be illegal in much of the world and still is in a lot of places. It also used to be common for older men to date and marry girls around 15 or 16.
I think that cheating on your spouse is much more morally equivalent to con men and internet scammers.