Well, the media loves a good scandal. The problem is, since George W Bush has taken office, there just does not seem to be enough scandal to go around. In the late 1990s, not only did we have the dot com bubble, we also had the presidential scandal bubble, both of which burst around the same time.

Former Mayor Marion Barry was a fascinating part of the mid-to-late 90s, where you just never knew what was going to happen next with an elected official. As you probably remember, this former mayor of Washington D.C. coined some of the most memorable phrases of that period — other than the most famous quote, of course: "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski."

Here are a few of Marion Barry's best:

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."

"Bitch set me up."

"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less."

"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."

"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican."

But if you've been missing the former Mayor of DC, we now have a new former leader to take his place; former President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. What is Aristide's claim to infamy? None other than the secret American plot which toppled his government. Aristide accused the US government of engineering a "a coup and a modern day kidnapping" to remove him from office.

Even more humorous than Aristide's lame story of his "forced" ouster is the fact that mainstream media sources seem to be taking his story seriously. The Washington Post is just one of many newspapers that has apparently decided to give serious attention to this wild claim.

What the media does not seem intent on, however, is asking the tough questions of Aristide that might really help determine what the truths are regarding Aristide's flight from Haiti. For example, Aristide stated that on February 29, "U.S. troops were surrounding" his residence when Moreno arrived to talk to him about the situation in Haiti.

Well, obviously, when a US official arrives under the circumstances that we saw in Haiti at the time, US security and perhaps even the army will accompany them. This by itself is not beyond the pale. However, then Aristide goes on to say that "I know there were American military and maybe other militaries from other countries. I cannot say only Americans," Aristide said. "But there were a considerable number."

So, now the plot is not just of American origin, it has expanded possibly into other nations as well? Aristide's importance grows by the second!