Kerry: "Nothing there to report" -- Candidate dismisses allegations of scandal
World Net Daily; EFL
In a television interview this morning, Sen. John Kerry dismissed allegations of infidelity published yesterday by the Drudge Report.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman..." | MSNBC host Don Imus, who has endorsed Kerry for the Democratic presidential nomination, asked the Massachusetts senator if there were anything in the Drudge allegations that should cause him to withdraw support. "Thereâs nothing to report, nothing to talk about ⊠no," said Kerry on the "Imus in the Morning" show.
What else do they expect him to say? "Well, yes, Don, Iâve been such an alley cat, âKerryingâ on with my little 20-year old âtomato,â that Iâm unfit to be president. You should drop me like a live grenade and endorse Kucinich." Real likely, that.
Earlier this week, according to Drudge, Gen. Wesley Clark told a dozen reporters in an off-the-record conversation, "Kerry will implode over an intern issue . . . ." Just two hours after the report was posted, Clark aides said the candidate, who dropped out Wednesday, would endorse Kerry.
"He sent over a coupla babez, and they... ummm... talked me into it." | Drudge said "reporters who witnessed Clark making the stunning comments marvel at the generalâs reluctance to later confirm they were spoken â only to later endorse Kerry for the nomination."
"Mary" must have told him to change his story.
Clarkâs press secretary Bill Buck refused to comment on the allegations. "We do not respond to right-wing Internet postings in any way, shape or form," he said.
"But we do post at Democratic Underground pretty regularly."
Meanwhile, the London Telegraph said diehard Dean supporters exulted at the news on Internet forums, where there has been considerable bitterness about what they perceive as the mediaâs destruction of their candidate. The Kerry campaign Internet forum, in contrast, was seething with anger over "Republican dirty tricks."
Posted by: Mike 2004-02-13 |