[conservative in nyc]

I don't have to prove anything - that is my personal opinion summation of what has occurred here.

Fair enough. But if you were still working for a newspaper, could you run with that?

As to the marital infidelity rumors about the Mayor - I was reminded about them from a friend in Delaware last week - we'd been talking about them in Dover long before this ever blew up.

There is absolutely no doubt these O'Malley rumors have been circulating for years. The Washington Post reported that infidelity rumors were rampant a March 2000 article. Directly from the O'Malley's mouths.

[Gabz]

But if you were still working for a newspaper, could you run with that?

Absolutely not........as I said, I never used an anonymous source when I was a reporter. I saw the use of them blow up in the face of a few people - and in one case I was the cause of it blowing up. Nothing major, I just wouldn't agree to anonymity of the source, so the source went elsewhere and the reporter got it wrong. I was able to get all kinds of attributable quotes and the original source was outed and discredited. Small town markets are like that, but being in radio - I needed tape.

There is absolutely no doubt these O'Malley rumors have been circulating for years. The Washington Post reported that infidelity rumors were rampant a March 2000 article. Directly from the O'Malley's mouths.

We were talking about it in Delaware prior to 2000. A fair number of the lobbyists I worked with in dover also worked in Annapolis, so the gossip back and forth about the comings and goings of both states is rampant.