Newspaper articles have a pretty short life on the web; links to them become obsolete/inoperative fairly quickly. The copy-and-paste option assures that the text will still be available to those who read this thread next month or next year.

The misappropriation of campaign funds is much more serious than the marital infidelity ~ at least, to us, the public. Of course, the two offenses are irretreivably interrelated.