'This Won't Go Away. What Happened Is Much Nastier Than Is Being Reported' (Kerry)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-15-2004 | Adrian Blomfeld/Andrew Alderson

[blam]

'This won't go away. What happened is much nastier than is being reported'

By Adrian Blomfeld in Nairobi and Andrew Alderson
(Filed: 15/02/2004)

Alex Polier, the twenty-four year old journalist who could end Senator John Kerry's hopes of becoming the next president of the United States is alleged to have had a two-year affair with the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Last night the rumours were in danger of becoming a full-blown scandal.

"This is not going to go away," one American friend of Miss Polier said yesterday. "What actually happened is much nastier than is being reported."

The allegations come at a crucial time for the senator. Polls showed him leading Mr Bush by 52 per cent to 42 per cent, and aides will be anxious to see if the apparent scandal affects his standing among voters.

Miss Polier, a former intern who also spent some time in 1998 doing work experience at the Houses of Parliament in London, is in Kenya staying with Yaron Schwartzman, her fiance and a member of the country's fashionable young set. The couple have refused to make any comment on her alleged links with Senator Kerry, who is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, an heiress to the food empire.

Senator Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran dubbed the new JFK, has vehemently denied any relationship with Miss Polier, and shrugged off allegations that he had a two-year affair with her from 2001. "I just deny it categorically. It's rumour. It's untrue. Period," he said.

Mr Kerry, 60, has won 12 out of the 14 Democratic primaries and has looked all but certain to seal the nomination to take on President George W. Bush in November's elections.

His aides have blamed a dirty tricks campaign for bringing the allegations about Miss Polier into the public eye; they first surfaced last week on a Right-wing internet site, the Drudge Report, which famously first broke the news of Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Miss Polier's parents, Terry and Donna, from Malvern, Pennsylvania, added fuel to the fire by claiming that Mr Kerry did pursue their daughter.

"I think he's a sleazeball. I did wonder if she didn't get that feeling herself," said Mr Polier. "He's not the sort of guy I'd choose to be with my daughter.

"John Kerry called my daughter and invited her to be on his re-election committee. She talked to him and decided against it."

The Drudge website also quoted retired Gen Wesley Clark, one of Mr Kerry's rivals for the nomination, as having told journalists off the record: "Kerry will implode over an intern issue."

Mr Clark later dropped out of the race and endorsed Mr Kerry.

Miss Polier, a journalist who once worked for Associated Press, is a graduate of Columbia University, New York. She apparently met the senator as she was beginning her media career. Miss Polier and her fiance were believed to be hiding yesterday at the Nairobi home of Mr Schwartzman's parents, who moved to Kenya from Israel.

She appears to have few friends of her own in Kenya: she has never lived in the country and makes only occasional visits. "She seemed perfectly nice, although she was a little cool," said a Schwartzman family friend.

"She didn't seem to be very willing to open up but whether it was because she was aloof or just shy, I couldn't work out."

[spokeshave]

Make that a john Sofa King Kerry

[ambrose]

Seems Slick and Kerry share similar tastes in their women.

[js1138]

It may be possible that Presidnet Bush missed a few drills tyring to secure his political future and there is nothing wrong with that as long as he had permission to miss from his superiors in the Guard.

The press is just too effing stupid to get it, and the conservative pundits are just to dumb to take advantage on the air. All the libs are finding guy who can't remember (after thirty years and out of 800 guys) seeing bush.

The important thing is that there is no one who remembers Bush being disciplined for being absent. Not one commander, not one soldier, not one piece of paper.

Ask any schoolteacher. Do you remember the kids who follow the rules, or do you remember the discipline problems?

Duh.

[PJ-Comix]

Naw! Miss Pole-ER is prettier. Plus I bet she's NOT a blimp.

[ApplegateRanch]

"What actually happened is much nastier than is being reported."
Rape?

Maybe.

At least we know it isn't drowning...yet>

[PeteFromMontana]

I saw it on Fox; it was a poll of 1k+ adults. Not very meaningful in the long run.

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Thanks, I have to confess I have not been watching much TV News of late as it seems to be all about bashing Republicans and holding Democrats up as the next great thing. I understand this has a lot to do with the Democratic Primaries and will soon fade.

In the meantime I am keeping up with the really important news by logging onto Free Republic throughout the day.

[ambrose]

Go away.

[Bonaparte]

That's not a photo of Polier. It's a picture of a woman named Bryce Schoer-Shepord from an article written by Polier.

[Martin Tell]

The photo in this thread was posted today by the UK Sun as being the lady in question.

Of course maybe they Kerried it up themselves.

[Aliska]

I'm beginning to wonder if there is something about his getting those medals that is very sleazy.

Our local talk radio host read somewhere that the paperwork submitted for the medals was in Kerry's handwriting. Sorry, I don't have a source.

[bannie]

All of this, and he's an UGLY yuck, too!

[blam]

This Time It's Personal (Kerry)

[dagoofyfoot]

I think Kerry has reason to believe this woman will keep quiet. I wonder why?


I mean, just look at the guy!....


Would you ever admitt to sleeping with that guy?


Have any guys ever admitted to sleeping with Helen Thomas?

[GeronL]

I'm beginning to wonder if there is something about his getting those medals that is very sleazy

Have you read about the exact circumstances of those medals??

[tet68]

Have any guys ever admitted to sleeping with Helen Thomas?

Just Peter Jennings........but that was after he broke up with Hannan Asrawi.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Claiming this is nastier than it looks? The man is called a sleazeball?

I don't recall Lewinsky's parents making negative statements about The 'Toon. In fact, from their silence I got the impression they thought it was kind of neat that their daughter was servicing a liberal president. If family and friends are saying unkind things about poodle boy, this could be fun.

[Enterprise]

It is frustrating to watch conservatives miss a key point of this "debate." The reserves are a pool of personnel readily available to mobilize in the event of a national emergency. The reserves are not a place where people go to get paid on weekends and punished if they don't go. As others have posted, a person can have a good reason to miss several months of drills, and the military is ok with that if the person makes up the drills. It is not so much important that they attend all monthly drills, but that they do make their yearly total points requirement and be otherwise TRAINED AND AVAILABLE.

[SAMWolf]

[DarthVader]

Wait until Bush starts to campaign. He has a warchest larger than THK's ketchup money. You will see Kerry's #'s drop like a rock. There was online Newsweek poll with 60,000 respondents last week on PMSMNBC which had Bush beating Lantern face 56% to 37%. I wouldn't get all that upset about these push polls. Most people think Kerry is a dick.