Why can't we do both?
No. I think chasing an old, BS "sex story" is the kind of squirrel the Rats love to use to bump serious tyrannic behavior out of the way.
Think of Bill Clinton: He should have been Impeached for Chinagate in 1996, but a more sparkly story about getting BJ's and cigar jobs from a chubby intern was too much to resist. Rats responded predictably with "It's only about sex!" Letting Bubba off scot-free on the real treacherous acts set this country up for just about every bad thing that's happened since.