Posted on 12/14/2004 7:34:35 PM PST by Next_Time_NJ
Edited on 12/14/2004 10:11:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
An apartment near the World Trade Center site that former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik used to engage in an extramarital affair with publisher Judith Regan, was originally donated for the use of weary police and rescue workers who were helping after 9-11! One bedroom faced the pit of ground zero... Regan would visit it while Kerik was police commissioner, meaning between Sept. 11 and Dec. 31, 2001. Kerik refused to answer any questions Tuesday regarding the apt... NYT planning coverage... Developing...
Only slightly less annoying than the Scott Peterson marathon. Maybe this will pass soon, too.
I agree. Up until now, the Rove (or whoever) vetting committee has done fairly well. This is a disaster if even a tenth of this stuff is true. Not so much for the President, but for the President's faith in his staff.
I'd be furious, both at the staff who missed it and this nominee who didn't come clean about it.
Sadly, however, this type of blood sport, as Vince Foster would say, will keep many of us, particularly conservatives, out of public life because of minute details of our life that we don't want exposed. Heck, I made some embarrassing comments when I was in 9th grade. How do I know that won't come out?
So What? This shouldn't be in the news. So, the guy has sex. Big deal. Drudge is like some hysterical schoolgirl with this headline.
Yup. She's something all right.
At least he didn't have oral and cigarsex in the oval office.
Oh right, then it would just be sex and none of our business.
"So What? This shouldn't be in the news. So, the guy has sex. Big deal. Drudge is like some hysterical schoolgirl with this headline."
It's not what he was doing... it is where he was doing it. A lot of ordinary working Americans donated a lot of money to those 9/11 charities. To benefit the victims and rescue workers. Not so that Bernie Kerik could get laid without his wife figuring out.
And I don't trust a lot of people like this, either. I call it the "Dennis Kozlowski Principle," which is named after the former Tyco CEO who has been charged with a number of crimes related to fraud and tax evasion. It seems that most people in the news these days who have risen from humble beginnings to powerful positions like this have some dirty laundry in their closets.
When will the insanity stop? don't they know you're not supposed to criticize, or report nasties, about a nominee of president Bush? This stuff is only bad if a Democrat does it? Why don't they know?
Thank GOD there wasn't this kind of media "scrutiny" of elected officials around the time of the First Continental Congress. There would be no such thing as the "Founding Fathers" if there had been.
My thoughts - hopes - exactly. Rudy has been married several times, and played around while married. He and Kerik may be two peas in the proverbial pod, ya think?
Well, we aren't looking for saints either, right?
How did this guy have the freaking NERVE to put himself out there for this job?!
Hubris or stupidity?
No we need the details. This big phoney was portraying himself as a hero, and I didn't see you complaining. But now we're learning the truth, and you don't want to hear it. Sorry, I can handle the truth even if folks like you can't
"Not so that Bernie Kerik could get laid without his wife figuring out."
what planet are you on. One of the unreported phenomenas of 9/11 in nyc was the fact that everyone was having great sex for the following six months. This is what happens in stressfull situations. Look at Italy during the black plague, when half the population was dying off. The remaining half were thoroughly enjoying themselves during the renaissance. Read 'the decameron.'
A RAT can be a scurvy bastard in his personal life, but it doesn't matter as long as he "does his job." A Republican, on the other hand, must perform his job to the complete satisfaction of the press and his political enemies, and his personal life must be more pure than a pope's. Those are the rules. Any questions?
any person rising through the ranks of an urban police/corrections force is going to have "whispers"; every promotion is resented by someone, every decision makes enemies, and they talk and spread innuendo, and on and on it goes. unless you can find some high ranking monk who doubles as a high ranking police official. that leaves nominees to come from the political class or empty shirt beauracrats - which is likely where the nominee will come from now. either we will get a politician (Lieberman, Pataki, etc), or some Norm Mineta type person.
Sorry, all of these "indiscretions" were on the public dime. As a public "servant" he's accountable to the public. I don't believe in sweeping malfeasance or misfeasance under the rug, simply because a Republican is the one who did it.
yes, many of them make it to the US Senate.
Only because he's a Republican candidate of course. John Kerry was propped by the media more than anybody I ever remember. He got a total pass on his military record, VietNam questions, anti-war activities and liberal voting record. Not to mention the women problems that Susan Estrich leaked out about during the height of the Dean Days. Talk about skeletons..
WRONG!!!! we're after Rudy AND Kerik.
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