[Diddle E. Squat]

"All we have at the moment is that the woman's parents, who are republicans, don't like Senator Kerry."

But they just endorsed Kerry. Methinks this W. Post staff apologist is a liar.

[Diddle E. Squat]

"Wouldn't" you idiot

[Shermy]

"We've been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don't feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold.

OK. Washington Post is leaking to the BBC. Who's leaking to the Telegraph? Time Mag?

Parents are "republicans?" Even if dems I thought their pro-Kerry statement odd.

[OXENinFLA]

ping.............

[G.Mason]

"In any case, nobody would be too shocked if Kerry lied about an affair. Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn't run it. Lying to Don Imus [the radio host to whom Kerry gave his initial denial] is not a federal offence."

Is it me, or is that a "huge feather" pillow being placed squarely under Kerry's rump, to protect him from a fall?

[KantianBurke]

Sorry. No sympathy for Dubya on this one. When he signed CFR he made sure that the Washington Post and the NY Times would have impunity to do such things.

[observer5]

""We've been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don't feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold."

What a joke. These guys have no shame!

[axel f]

What was their proof of the cocaine story? That got a lot of copy.

[PetroniusMaximus]

***"We've been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don't feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold.***

Potential Commander and Chief cheating on his wife...

no really compelling public interest there...

[TommyDale]

I think people are missing something -- who says that Alex Polier is the only one?

[Ruth A.]

Senator Kerry himself said initially: "There is nothing to report" and then when that was challenged as a Clinton style non-denial, he stated clearly enough: "I just deny it categorically. It's untrue."

One would think that looking straight into a camera lens, wagging fnger and saying he did not have sex with that woman was a pretty categorical denial, too.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"We've been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don't feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold."

"We're going to handle it the same way we did with clinton's felony pardon by carter, clinton's cocaine use, algore's dropping out of 2 colleges, hillary's flunking the bar exam twice and taking money from terrorists." /sarcasm

[commish]

Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn't run it.

Sound familier? "I don't care if you have pictures of Clinton killing someone, you still won't get 67 votes."

F-in sleazebag CLYMER Liberals never F-in change. A POX ON ALL OF THE LYING SCUMBAGS!

[Brimack34]

How about all the Newspapers hiding the Nascar vist by Pres. Bush??? USA Today even dug up Clinton to put on the Cover with a nothing story....In Mn. Nothing.

[KC_Conspirator]

This smells to high heaven like a cover up.

[Ohioan]

Neither of those papers are known for journalistic ethics--certainly not in my lifetime. But that said, it would be very well if the media returned to the more genteel policy of not printing gossip about candidates personal lives. One cannot imagine the Founding Fathers ever answering questions about their sex lives, to any reporter. And, frankly, one of the things that was most contemptible about Clinton, was that he did so.

We need to rediscover the importance of privacy; the difference between men's public acts and beliefs on questions of state, and the private lives, to which even public servants are entitled. Our perceptions on this point have been blurred because of the outrageous exhibitionism of those in the "Entertainment" industry; but it is not acceptable to treat anyone else in that light--and frankly, if I had a newspaper, there would be no room for the attention seeking exhibitionism of the former.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn't run it...

Pathetic example of modern "journalism".

[VadeRetro]

"In any case, nobody would be too shocked if Kerry lied about an affair. Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn't run it. Lying to Don Imus [the radio host to whom Kerry gave his initial denial] is not a federal offence."

"... But now if you get anything on Bush, please call us!"

[VadeRetro]

But they [Alex Polier's parents] just endorsed Kerry. Methinks this W. Post staff apologist is a liar.

They could be Republicans. They could have had their reasons for saying what they said.

[optimistically_conservative]

Boy, I'm glad the BBC is not biased. I mean after naming all those dirty trick Republicans throughout the ages they named how many as Democrats?

Zero?

Oh, never mind.

[mewzilla]

Did you listen to Limbaugh today? The BBC has doctored this story! Click on the link now and you'll find the reference to the not even with pics and lying to Imus paragraph no longer there...