The Sunday shows break their three-week losing streak, and actually ask a Watchdog question. [1]

On ABC's This Week [2], George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. John Ensign if the GOP had a double standard by pressuring Sen. Larry Craig to resign but rallying around Sen. David Vitter:

...Vitter openly admits he broke the law and solicited prostitutes. Others serving in Congress have at the moment have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors of more import than disorderly conduct without being forced to resign. If morality and credibility are at issue, why isn't Vitter being held to that standard? What's the answer?

Ensign held on to the slim reed that Craig entered a guilty plea and Vitter had not. Talking Points Memo's Steven Benen [3] notes that Vitter "would have been subject to criminal charges, but the statute of limitations ran out" and "the whole argument seems premised on strained legalisms."

In contrast, CBS' Face The Nation [4] was horrible in its treatment of Iraq.

Not only did Bob Schieffer fail to ask Sen. Lindsey Graham [5] about the lack of credibility behind statements supporting the so-called "surge," his interview followed a cheerleading dispatch from Iraq by Katie Couric [6], void of any evidence of the surge's failure to reduce deaths and bring political stability, and evidence that the National Intelligence Estimate and General Accountability Office reports are subject to White House pressure.

Further, there was no mention of the weekend reports [7] that Iraqi civilian casualties are up in August. [8]

Finally, Fox News Sunday [9] did not ask White House aide Ed Gillespie about the scandals that led to the resignations of Karl Rove and Albert Gonzales.