[Prodigal Son]

Take that, democrats. When will the American media work up the nerve to report on this?

[ambrose]

“Is American politics suddenly returning to the bad old days when Washington journalism became frenzied with sheet-sniffing and keyhole peeping?” asked Joe Conason, a columnist for Salon, the online journal.

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The always provocative Spy takes the plunge - some might say right into the sewer of sleaze and unnamed sources.

The cover story of its July/August issue discusses George Bush's supposed infidelities and publishes the name of longtime aide Jennifer A. Fitzgerald, around whom rumors have long circulated. The piece by Joe Conason also details other supposed liaisons, including a 1980 relationship with ''Ms. X,'' then a 30-ish news agency employee.

--"Slinging Sex on Bush's Campaign," U.S.A. Today, June 17, 1992

[MJY1288]

"The Republican strategy is to portray Kerry as a liberal hypocrite who will say whatever wins the most votes"

LOL, That should be an easy task, mainly because John Kerry is a Liberal hypocrite who has a long history of saying whatever it takes to get elected.

[BunnySlippers]

WatchBlog surely has minimal traffic. Drudge got over 15 million hits on the Kerry story first day.

[Right_in_Virginia]

... the planting of a highly charged Kerry intern story — however wide of the truth — was the political equivalent of tossing a grenade into a volcano.

Gee. I wonder why the Clark/Clinton team did this.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Clark told cheering students in Madison. “He will stand up to the Republican attack dogs and send them home licking their wounds.”

So, Clark's a Republican again?

[backhoe]

The rumor first appeared Feb 6th, at http://www.watchblog.com/thirdparty/archives/000780.html

[The Wizard]

it's tough when you don't see the quicksand until you in it yup to your knees

[There's millions of'em]

At The New York Times the story awoke uncomfortable memories. After an earlier sexual scandal involving Senator Gary Hart — a presidential candidate who was photographed with his mistress on a yacht called Monkey Business — senior editors concluded that journalistic investigation had taken a wrong turn.

“They felt here was a guy with good ideas who was qualified to be president but got derailed,” one source at the paper said. “I remember editors saying, ‘Never again’.”

Well, at least the NYT's bias/agenda is again exposed.

[The Wizard]

bttt

[Beck_isright]

Of course there's one thing left out of the story; Kerry's history of womanizing...which is supposed to be unbelievable.

[OldFriend]

Never Again.........unless it's something against a replublican politician or a talk show host on the right.

That's the medias definition of Never Again.

Any outcry about the Kerry camp not allowing 'certain' questions to be asked?

[StriperSniper]

Angered by Democratic questioning of Bush’s military performance as a reservist in the 1970s, Republican researchers have been scrutinising every aspect of Kerry’s past, from his Vietnam protest years to his long service in the Senate. A potentially embarrassing photograph of Kerry with Jane Fonda — who was reviled by many Vietnam veterans for visiting Hanoi during the war — popped up last week on a conservative website; 30-year-old quotes have also appeared in which Kerry called for US troops to be deployed abroad only under United Nations directives.

I wonder who he means... ;-)

[uncbob]

“Is American politics suddenly returning to the bad old days when Washington journalism became frenzied with sheet-sniffing and keyhole peeping?” asked Joe Conason, a columnist for Salon, the online journal.

BAD OLD DAYS
Hey Joe Cut me a break
Damn press covered for JFK for years

[jigsaw]

While conservative chat show hosts seized on it, the rest of the American media were
collectively agonising over whether Drudge and his internet ilk should be allowed to
drag another presidential race into the gutter.

Oh pleeeeezze!   Kerry's being dragged out of the gutter .... not into it.

[VadeRetro]

He added several details which heightened suspicion in the Kerry camp that Clark aides had attempted to derail the senator’s triumphant progress to keep their man in the race.

But that didn't keep them from claiming it was "Republican dirty tricks."

[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'

[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.

[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?