Posted on 04/24/2005 4:17:40 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
Public relations executive Melody Townsel became the focus of media attention last week by accusing U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton of once chasing her down a hotel hallway in Moscow while screaming and throwing things.
But that's not the first time Townsel has been in the news. In fact, the former leader of Mothers Opposing Bush has quite a knack for attracting press coverage, even when it comes to the most mundane details of her personal life.
Like the New York City apartment she rented a few years after returning from the Russia trip. Somehow Townsel got the Village Voice to do a profile on her flat, which she described to the Voice reporter as looking like "a Bangkok brothel." And then there was the birth of Ms. Townsel's baby. By October 2000, the Bolton accuser had moved to Dallas – just in time to be quoted in the Dallas Morning News giving advice on how to juggle a career and motherhood.
By 2003, Melody Townsel was in the news again – this time after a local homeless man was hit by a truck. The Dallas Morning News turned to Townsel because she once hired the injured gent "to move heavy boxes and to help make repairs in her back yard."
But the most intriguing account of Townsel's travails came nine years earlier – just after she returned from the ill-fated Russia trip where she encountered Bolton.
"She broke her left leg in three places while working in Kazakhstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union," the Dallas paper reported in December 1994. "Ms. Townsel said the broken leg was a painful blessing. ... Had it not been for the accident, she would not have made it home for Christmas."
It's unclear from the report whether Townsel broke her leg before or after she was compelled to run down that Moscow hallway with Bolton in hot pursuit.
Ping!
Loony PR lady..PING!
I'll take her seriously when she repeats her accusations under oath.
She'll just say it depends on what the definition of attention whore is.....
Reminds me of the Wendy's finger lady.
i don't really see anything "interesting" there, as in: this will discredit her. She just seems to be a publicity hound.
Has she ever tried the finger in the chili gambit?
Chased in a Motel 6 by Condi Rice
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Chased in a Motel 6 by Condi Rice
letter | 4/20/05 | anonymous source
Posted on 04/20/2005 9:10:14 PM PDT by woofie
A good friend of mine for 40 years has come forward with some new allegations. Here is his letter to Joe Biden: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Dear Senate Committee on Bush nominees....
In 1995 I was a handyman at the Motel Six in Amarillo Texas. I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was changing a lightbulb when a nice looking black woman named Rice chased me down the hall with a ball-peen hammer. She was shouting and screaming and I was scared out of my wits. Imagine my surprise to learn this "lady " is Condoleeza Rice and she is now Secretary of State.
A month later in the storage shed out back, a man whose name I knew only as "John" threw a mattress pad over my head and choked me till I passed out. Friends later identified him as John Ashcroft. Every day for six weeks he would show up and tell me I was fat. I was humiliated.
About the time I was getting over this Tom Ridge tried to set fire to my '67 Chevy Nova.
I could go on and on. Obviously the Bush administration cares nothing about these people's morals or integrity. Bush has placed these "lowlifes" in the highest position of authority in our nation's capitol.
I humbly ask you to investigate these events. I have been distraught for years by these episodes
Respectively yours
M.P.Strunck (handyman)
Belen New Mexico
Bingo!! It's called 'strategy' if your a liberal.
wow.
If you have any questions for Melody you can email her. Believe it or not she will answer you. lol!
melody@townsel-communications.com
Seems like someone Senator Voinovich should take very seriously when evaluating Bolton's nomination.
Asked why she didn't report this in a 2001 hearing on Bolton she said that she was too busy juggling "children" and motherhood. This from a single mom with one child.
I don't see why the Senate would even give mind to a woman who is so sick that she gets a kick out of child juggling.
I bet she drops them for fun...
I'll take the whole thing seriously when Bolton has a chance to face his accusers. Remember, in these hearings it dosen't have to be true, it just has to be said.
Um, nobody in the lame stream media or senate thought this might affect her credibility?
I'm shocked, just shocked.
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