Alex Polier to write tell all (Kerry's intern is back)

NY Daily News ^ | 5/14/04 | Lloyd Grove

[jimbo123]

Three months ago, Columbia Journalism School grad Alexandra Polier was the target of Internet rumors and media speculation about a supposed extramarital affair (denied by all concerned) with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Back then, the 27-year-old Polier's photograph was published in papers from New York to London, and she pleaded publicly "that the press respect our privacy and leave all of us alone."

But now she's had enough of privacy.

Word from Nairobi, Kenya - where Polier has been living with the family of her Israeli fiancé, Yaron Schwartzman - is that she's toiling on an epic essay about her experiences at the center of a political firestorm.

According to an informed source, the former Associated Press intern is writing her account - for which New York magazine is paying $10,000 - of how it felt to be on the wrong side of the reporter-subject equation.

Polier was hounded by media lowlifes and guttersnipe gossip columnists (me, perhaps?) who published provocative details of a Friendster.com profile in which she - or someone claiming to be her - was described as "just another hot piece of a-- with a philosophy degree."

My informant tells me: "She is also going to detail her work for Kerry and, possibly, her relationship with one of his staffers, not the candidate."

After cybergossip Matt Drudge energetically stoked the rumors into a full-fledged nonscandal, Polier issued a statement that said, in part: "Because these stories were false, I assumed the media would ignore them. It seems that efforts to peddle these lies continue, so I feel compelled to address them. I have never had a relationship with Sen. Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false."

Kerry also dismissed the stories, telling reporters: "I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue."

Yesterday, the Kerry campaign declined to weigh in on Polier's article-in-progress, and New York mag spokeswoman Serena Torrey told me: "We don't comment on any stories that may or may not be in the works."

[jimbo123]

I wonder if she'll start hawking handbags like Monica?

[Republican Red]

ooohhh! SHE'S BACK!

Do we see dead candidates?

[Revolting cat!]

Don't need to read it. Our sources have provided us with a succinct summary preview::

"Poor me."

[dead]

Oh no! The VRWC is going to get some bad press out of this!

"They were so mean! Asking me questions about the senator's winky and if we had threesomes... oh gawd! How gross!"

[EggsAckley]

Methinks the lady doth protest too much..........

[Paul Atreides]

She's back, huh? I wonder if she had a boy, or a girl.

[anniegetyourgun]

$10K for her denial along with some boring stories of stuffing envelopes for the campaign? NY Mag is being taken.

[ride the whirlwind]

Everybody's writing a book these days.......except me. I predict it'll be a big yawn.

[rod1]

Close but in this case.

"Poor me, Rich me". 10K richer that is to whine and say essentially nothing.

[LaGrone]

Sure, I believe she is a victim just as these Muslims are, Berg and his family are, Kerry , Kennedy, Klintoon; who are the other million I left out. LOL

[capt. norm]

I'm wondering if she got a call from the Clintons telling her to go ahead and drop the bomb.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

So I'll have to be the one to state the obvious question, if she maintains nothing happened then what could she have to write about? Here's the whole book;

"There was a scandal. I hid out. The end."

Of course the Clinton loving morons will love it.

[JRandomFreeper]

Everybody's writing a book these days.......except me.

You could write a book about not writing a book...

I seriously doubt Kerry had a physical relationship with 'that intern'. Did you see him fall off his bike? Klinton may be a sleaze, but the only time he and Yeltsin fell down is when they were blotto.

/john

[COUNTrecount]

"$10K for her denial along with some boring stories of stuffing envelopes for the campaign? NY Mag is being taken.'


Why bring this story out of retirement just in time for the Demoncrats Convention ? It was off the media's radar screen and now there will be refocused attention on Kerry's intern problems.

Anyone think that there are Clinton ulterior motives here ?

[Bonaparte]

"...writing her account - for which New York magazine is paying $10,000 - of how it felt to be on the wrong side of the reporter-subject equation."

Wow! Ten grand just to tell everybody about her feeeeeeeelings! Ordinarily, only the fat girlfriend is willing to suffer through these wailings. Of course, if the fat girlfriend goes on a diet and gets a life, you have to either tell a bartender or pay a shrink $200/hr. I guess NY mag figures everybody else's fat girlfriends will be buying that issue.

[soozla]

I dunno but whaddaya think HE'S having, hmmmm??????

[Saundra Duffy]

Barf.

[Shermy]

My informant tells me: "She is also going to detail her work for Kerry and, possibly, her relationship with one of his staffers, not the candidate."

Someone noted months ago that if this were true she could have simply siad "I was dating Mr. X, not Kerry" and that would be the end of it.

But that didn't happen...

[soozla]

Hate to dislodge your dinner, but it's Ted Kennedy.............

[rabidralph]

I'm writing a book about you.