The Occasional Observer

So Paterson and his wife both had a ton of affairs, Paterson perhaps inappropriately awarded jobs and cash payments, and now we learn used coke in his early 20s (apparently a requirement for the best: Marion Barry, Bush, Obama, and Paterson).

My question is this: on what basis does CNN's article end with this curious statement:

Paterson is regarded in New York as a politician of integrity who is capable of building consensus in the capital in Albany after the Spitzer shake-up.

Really? Integrity? I guess M-W must've gone and changed the definition of integrity when I wasn't looking.