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This is how credible the Sun (and British journalism in general) is. This is the front page of their paper today...Paul McCartney personally ringing the newspaper to ask them to lay off his wife and stop printing lies about her and his family. I would take anything printed in the British tabloids with a HUGE grain of salt.

This is how credible the Sun (and British journalism in general) is.

RE: Drudge, Telegraph, Philly Inquirer, Sun stories...

They didn't find any of this themselves. They're being fed it from a bigger American player. Probably Time Magazine, floating the items to test whether they want to publish.

Remember, the first leak from a Clark camper mentioned the story was going to come out in Time.

The Sun was the SOLE source of the supposed quotes from Polier's parents calling Kerry a scumbag, wasn't it? One problem with British sources is I think people don't really have a clear idea what those sources are. A lot of outlandish Sun stuff gets posted here.

Those parental "scumbag" quotes from the Sun sounded dubious to me from the start. One problem FR has is applying different standards of credibility to things FR wants to believe as opposed to things that FR doesn't want to believe.

"I would take anything printed in the British tabloids with a HUGE grain of salt. "

Indeed. Many on FR are so eager to find a scandal on Kerry that they will listen to anyone. Everything about this story has the ring of the tabloids and the blog world. Everything reported has been unsourced. This is a bogus story, and I said so when it first broke on Drudge.

It's going to embarrass those who broke it and repeated it, and it's going to embarrass FR, since searching for info on this story brings up FR links, and will continue to do so.

I don't know who initiated the story. I don't care. I do care if it casts negative impressions of this site, and that's sure to happen.

Kerry denies it. The woman denies it. That, my friends, is the end of it. The woman did not work for Kerry...she's a journalist. The investigation ends with those denials, since no law could have been broken, even if some affair had happened.

Surely there's some real issue that can be used to attack Kerry. This one's bogus.

Paul McCartney personally ringing the newspaper to ask them to lay off his wife and stop printing lies about her and his family.

You do that by solicitor's letter, not a phone call.

Paul was making a appeal to the media in general. And you only do that by giving an interview to someone you trust to be sympathetic.

Was the Sun printing lies about his wife?

Previous Sun story

Lady Macca faces op
The Sun, UK - 22 Jan 2004
By THOMAS WHITAKER.
SIR Paul McCartney’s brave wife Heather is facing major surgery — as a result of having the baby she always longed for. ...

Neither a lie nor unfavourable