Democratic aide was source of affair rumour that dogs Kerry

Sunday Times ^ | February 15, 2004 | Tony Allen-Mills

[VadeRetro]

Not until he stopped for questions at a lunchtime forum in Madison did it become clear that he had taken precautions to shield himself from possible embarrassment. Questions were screened in advance and only supporters on an approved list were called upon to speak. Reporters grimaced as a succession of friendly Wisconsinites lobbed gentle queries about jobs, education and family dairy farmers.

Can they do this all the way to November? They're certainly going to try.

[VadeRetro]

Times UK has a more recent pic of Alex Polier:

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

[Prodigal Son]

This is front page news on today's newstand copy of the Sunday Telegraph.

[VadeRetro]

Americans aren't to have their pretty little heads distracted by such stuff, of course. Our media are so protective of us, and so wise!

[Prodigal Son]

But you know, the fact that they ignore a story that the Brits put on the front pages here is a story in and of itself.

I'd like to see a reporter asking the US media bigwigs what their explanation is for pretending this isn't a story.

[VadeRetro]

Just wasted the following as a "News Tip" to CNN.com:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/15/wus15.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/02/15/ixportaltop.html

Story seems to be big in London. The Hindustani Times and the Australians seem to have it as well.

Can't tell you how funny this looks, seeing the Bush AWOL story slowly evaporate,

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/17932.htm

while still no sign of what the rest of the world is allowed to know.

Is something going on here?

[Prodigal Son]

They've got their fingers in their ears going 'I can't hear you! Nyah Nyah Nyah!'

[avenir]

"They've got their fingers in their ears going 'I can't hear you! Nyah Nyah Nyah!'"

Man, does that sum it up!

[mabelkitty]

She cannot survive the Democratic debates alone.
She won't make it out of the gate.
Let's hope the real story doesn't come out until after March 9.

[jimbo123]

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[sweetliberty]

"“I just don’t care what these people do with their private lives,” said Mariana Hewson, a medical consultant. “Who else cares apart from you?”

And THAT shows your lack of understanding of what you support. Here's a little short lesson for you....if someone is a smarmy, dishonest RAT in his personal life with the people he is supposed to love, what makes you think he isn't going to be a smarmy, dishonest RAT with a country full of people he doesn't even know and cares less about? If a man is incapable of making good judgements in his personal affairs (no pun intended), what makes you think he will be capable of making good judgements on behalf of an entire nation? If a man has a history of contempt for the army which he served in, how does that qualify him to be its top commanding officer? If he is sitting idly by while his wife's money is financing America's enemies, what does that make him?

You dumb*ss democRATs better start paying attention. The men you support today will be your slavemasters tomorrow, and if you think they will make a distinction because you once supported them, you'd better think again and take a look at the body count and devasted lives among the Clinton faithful.

[Prodigal Son]

She cannot survive the Democratic debates alone.

Correct. Better for her to jump in late.

[GailA]

SEE POST # 75 by William McKinley

http://www.watchblog.com/thirdparty/archives/000780.html

February 06, 2004

Rumor: A Kerry Affair & Push Polling

Rumor has it that John Kerry (D) is going to be outed by Time Magazine next week for having an affair with a 20 year old woman who remains unknown. The affair supposedly took place intermittently right up to Kerry's Fall 2002 announcement of candidacy. At present, this is nothing more than a rumor; and after such sordid tactics as the "push polling" that took place in South Carolina in the 2000 elections, can such rumors be credible during campaign cycles? Could this create a Democratic backlash against Republicans for perceived scandalmongering?

http://www.watchblog.com/ © 2003 - Cameron Barrett | editor@watchblog.com

http://www.camworld.com/archives/001255.html

Not only that, but a blog entry made many days ago 'broke' the story. The blog is run by Cameron Barrett (go to the bottom of the blog (home/main page I Added this to the post cause I couldn't find the name on the first link) to see his name and copyright note). Cameron Barrett works for Wesley Clark's campaign.

And notice how in that blog entry, it already was setting up the right to take the blame?

Could this create a Democratic backlash against Republicans for perceived scandalmongering?

[alwaysconservative]

What a great post! Thank you for putting it so clearly why the Democrats should care about character (and why they probably don't).