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Sunday's NY Post Weddings section has an announcement of the wedding of Alexandra Polier, the reported mistress of John F. Kerry, who fled to Africa during the campaign to avoid the media. Nice pic of the happy couple...

I have a hypothetical question: should Matt Drudge replace Dan Rather? I realize those would be rather small shoes to fill (hah!) considering Dan is what, 5' 2"? If not, why not? If so, what would have to change to make something like this even remotely possible? And finally, would Drudge have to cut back on posting articles about three-headed chickens and monster hurricanes to take the top spot? Or would we now see him out there in a rain slicker next hurricane season, lashed to a lamppost and interviewing a two-headed calf about the prospects for surviving the storm?

ALLENTOWN, PA-September 6, 2004 — Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, has canceled an appearance in the Lehigh Valley after suffering an upset stomach that briefly sent her to a hospital over the weekend. Kerry campaign spokesman Mark Nevins says Heinz Kerry will participate in Labor Day events in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia today. But she's skipping the Lehigh Valley Labor Council picnic in Upper Macungie Township to give her a chance to rest. Nevins says the Kerry campaign is working to find "an alternative person" to send to the annual picnic, expected to draw several hundred...

The Web is full of articles from around the globe about presidential hopeful John Kerry's alleged two-year affair with a journalist named Alex Polier (see, e.g., google.com), yet none of America's TV networks (except Fox) or mainstream newspapers are reporting about it (except the Washington Times, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News). She is a journalist who apparently fled to Kenya, and her father has reportedly called Kerry a "sleazeball," but the American media is only reporting about George W. Bush's military record more than 30 years ago! What a double standard and a travesty. I...

The woman who could end Senator John Kerry’s chances of becoming president of the United States remained holed up in a Lavington house in Nairobi amid claims that she had confessed her affair to a US TV station. The gate to the house where twenty four-year old Alexandra Polier, who allegedly had a two-year affair with the Senator favoured to clinch the Democratic Party nomination stays, was closed yesterday. Local and international journalists camped at the gate for hours but were denied access to house no 909 on James Gichuru Road, next to the Spring Garden Chinese Restaurant. A guard...

First you do an orchestrated hit on Howard Dean --- after you've hyped the expectations for his candidacy through the stratosphere --- coordinated with some "Kerry the Warrior" boosting "just to be sure" we have really come up with someone "electable" in our desperate quest to replace the Bush cabal of Israel Firsters/ Neocon Empire Wannabes, Wall Street Wiseguys, Arms Merchants and Oil Barons before they finally do escalate this into a World War, and who all belong on trial in the Hague. THEN! you snip together some film to make Dean look like crazy Howard Beale in the movie...

LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper on Tuesday defended the accuracy of its story quoting the father of Alexandra Polier, the woman who has been the subject of rumors linking her to Sen. John Kerry. The unsubstantiated rumors arose on the Internet last week, saying that Polier, a 27-year-old freelance journalist, had an affair with the front-running Democratic presidential candidate. Both she and Kerry have denied the allegation. On Friday, The Sun tabloid quoted Polier's father, Terry, as being harshly critical of Kerry. In statements released to The Associated Press on Monday, Terry Polier, of Malvern, Pa., said that he...

<p>February 17, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The young woman at the center of rumors linking her to John Kerry broke her silence yesterday to deny she had an affair with the married Democratic front-runner. "I have never had a relationship with Sen. Kerry and the rumors in the press are completely false," Alexandra Polier, 27, said in a statement issued to The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya, where she is staying.</p>

"This is more excitement than we're ever used to having," she said. Calabrese was scanning the crowd of 20 or so media members that had gathered on Madeline Drive outside the home of her neighbors. Local print and television media, a CNN camera crew, an NBC crew, a New York Times reporter and two reporters that are employed by an agency that works for The (London) Sun had staked out the house. Calabrese seemed more fascinated with the media attention than with the possibility that the family's daughter reportedly had a relationship with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. "The story...

02/13/2004 02:44 AM John Kerry to strike back at "infidelity"-coverage, will appear on Imus-Show Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry is set to strike back at the "infidelity"-coverage by "Drudge Report" joining Don Imus on his Friday morning talk show. "Drudge Report" had first broken the news of intense US media investigation into the two-year relationship of Kerry and a young woman, which is said they had since Spring 2001. The woman is said to remain at an undisclosed location in Africa.

A global media scrum descended on the Chester County suburb of Malvern yesterday because of a furor over a rumored romantic link between a 1995 Great Valley High School grad and presidential hopeful John Kerry. Despite the frenzy, little information was forthcoming yesterday, and there was no confirmation of any relationship between Kerry and the woman. Several news trucks and assorted gawkers loitered outside the home of the parents of 27-year-old Alexandra Polier after her dad was quoted in a British tabloid that Kerry was "a sleazeball" who'd shown an interest in his daughter. Polier, who was a cross-country star...