Truth is stranger than fiction (though strange is not the right word)

Last night I saw >State of Play<, which made me think about political scandals.

So, I just pose one question:
Suppose the Chief of the opposition party, a man who owns three TV channels, one newspaper and controls another one plus more or less the three public TV channels, is recorded while calling the President of National TV over the phone, asking him to >provide< a certain young TV starlet for a Senator of the majority Party, in order to have him betray his party and cause a government crisis, allowing the first man to have new elections and take the power - and this conversation was published on many of the leading newspapers: would this be enaugh a political scandal to turn a country's politics inside out? Would it do a good script for an american film?

Because here nothing happened. The government fell, first man took the power, worst things have happened since and he's still in charge, smiling.