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2004-02-16

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-02-16 00:09|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I heard that Kerry said there wasn't a story here.

So I expect/demand Fred to remove this post.

BTW, I bet she can't wait to tell her story. Sex and the twentysomething.

Posted by Lucky 2004-2-16 1:11:18 AM|| 2004-2-16 1:11:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Yesh, by all means, let's get the story out. I want this to be over with ASAP.

I want Kerry to talk about his socialist vision for the USA, and the sooner Kerry thinks he is safe to enegerize his leftist base, the sooner we can set to wreck his drive for the White House.

Posted by badanov 2004-2-16 1:31:17 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-2-16 1:31:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The same wing of the NBCABCCBS network that sat on the Juanita Broadrick rape interview, not wanting to taint Billy Clinton's job approval numbers prior to impeachment?

Posted by Garrison 2004-2-16 7:44:30 AM|| 2004-2-16 7:44:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 the Fleet street tabloids will follow through, this will come out even if the US networks don't want it to. Should be interesting. It won't kill his candidacy, but Theresa might ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2004-2-16 8:30:31 AM|| 2004-2-16 8:30:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank G, Unless Theresa wants the 'First ~~Lady -er- bitch -er-~~ Spouse' job as much as Hillary wanted it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-2-16 9:03:11 AM|| 2004-2-16 9:03:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Umm I wonder if the sex was a little kinky...Spankings etc......Well we shall see.....If true couldn't happen to a nicer guy. This guy needs to be torpedoed.

Posted by dataman1 2004-2-16 9:24:10 AM|| 2004-2-16 9:24:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Drudge notes the media's tune changes depending on who's the accused:
FLASHBACK: MEDIA GRILLED BUSH OVER 'ADULTERY' CLAIMS
As main press players blast the DRUDGE REPORT and foreign outlets for revealing details of a behind-the-scenes campaign drama surrounding candidate Kerry and the nature of his relationship with a mystery woman -- just 12 years ago the same players peppered former President George Bush with questions surrounding an infidelity rumor!
In 1992 top reporters swiftly reacted to a footnote in a book quoting a long dead ambassador.
CNN rushed to get the rumor into the media stream as White House correspondent Mary Tillotson confronted President Bush as he hosted Israel Prime Minister Rabin in the Oval Office.
"There is an extensive series of reports in today's New York Post alleging that a former U.S. ambassador, a man now deceased, had told several persons that he arranged for a sexual tryst involving you and one of your female staffers in Geneva in 1984."
Asked NBC's Stone Phillips to the president's face at the height of the "rumor mongering":
"Have you ever had an affair?"
CBS' Harry Smith then confronted Bush spokesperson Mary Matalin over on-air morning coffee:
"Let me ask you about something else. There's a book out, or a book that's just about out that in a footnote names that then-Vice President Bush had an affair with an assistant when he was on a mission in Geneva. Well, that footnote has turned into frontpage news (holding up N.Y.POST), at least in New York, in the N.Y. POST. Albeit a tabloid, it is usually a conservative newspaper. Are you ready to say that accusation is a flat out lie?"
NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter defended the aggressive adultery rumor line-of-questioning of the first President Bush on ABC's NIGHTLINE on August 12, 1992, on a broadcast titled: "The Media Charges George Bush With Adultery."
"In this situation, the Oval Office isn't a temple," Alter explained. "The President is a candidate and he has to be asked tough, often distasteful, but nonetheless important kinds of questions."
UPI's Helen Thomas also defended the Bush affair reportage:
"Some people might have felt that it wasn't appropriate. But when you have the President there, I think it's very legitimate to ask him any question."

CUT TO 2004:
NEWSWEEK'S Alter blasted any and all coverage of the Kerry infidelity probe last week on a New York City talkradio outlet -- calling the investigation "sleazy."
The media outrage over an erupting story of possible infidelity of a presidential candidate -- 2004 -- peaked with Joe Conason's cover story in SALON late last week ["There he goes again! Matt Drudge and the GOP smear machine are back in the Democrats' pants"]
Conason lamented:
"But the kind of proof usually required by national news organizations isn't what Drudge needs in order to put innuendo into circulation."
But is this really the same Joe Conason who in the Summer of 1992 wrote a magazine cover story entitled "1,000 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR GEORGE BUSH?"
Conason's reason #1:
"He cheats on his wife."
The rumor of President Bush having an affair was never proved by the media.
The developing Kerry drama may or may not join it on the shelf.

Posted by Frank G 2004-2-16 9:26:42 AM|| 2004-2-16 9:26:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 If the sex claims are true, they would shatter his White House hopes.
What a load of crap. Anyone who would vote for Kerry doesn't care, and would likely feel defiant against perverted old Republicans who got their jollies torturing poor Bill & Monica.

Posted by I_Heart_Monica 2004-2-16 9:29:17 AM|| 2004-2-16 9:29:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I dont think the media would show it even if there was a paris-hilton-type-video of the two banging each other in his Senate office.

And 'I_heart_monica'. President Clinton flat out lied to the american people and he lied under oath. Anyone who will cheat on his wife and his marriage will not get my vote -- he is a blantant LIAR and is not to be trusted. They were not tortured but properly investigated and he was found Guilty and impeached.

Personally I think the vast majority of americans do care of the president is cheating on his marriage.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-2-16 9:42:32 AM|| 2004-2-16 9:42:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 The news is already out and it doesn't seem to have hurt him. I think the issue will be security v/s hating Bush.

I predict Kerry gets the nomination - regardless.

Posted by B 2004-2-16 9:54:46 AM|| 2004-2-16 9:54:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL I_Heart_Monica Thank goodnes you didn't _Club_Monica.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-16 10:16:38 AM|| 2004-2-16 10:16:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 He was a weasel a long, long time before this. This just makes him more "Clintonesque" which, sad to say, will probably help him with his Democratic constituents.
Unless, of course, Mrs. Ketchup cuts his balls off.

Posted by tu3031 2004-2-16 10:20:25 AM|| 2004-2-16 10:20:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I think there is a world of difference between the infidelity of a candidate and a sitting president. The candidate presents himself for your vote and issues of character and personal morality do have weight in how you vote. The sitting president, on the other hand, really becomes an issue of how much effort it is to remove him from office. It is much easier to turf the guy before he reaches the office.

Posted by john 2004-2-16 12:22:41 PM|| 2004-2-16 12:22:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 What this story might do, if it plays out, is to consolidate support for Bush among social conservatives who otherwise might not like his fiscal policies etc. I doubt it will affect Kerry's Dem base much.

It does, however, suggest the Dems should go softly with the "awol" meme.

Posted by rkb 2004-2-16 12:32:17 PM|| 2004-2-16 12:32:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 "If the sex claims are true, they would shatter his White House hopes."

Don't be silly. Kerry is a Dim, paraphrasing somebody, the only way an affair would hurt him is if he was caught with a dead boy or a live dog.

Posted by Harold 2004-2-16 2:14:12 PM|| 2004-2-16 2:14:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 dataman, ROFL...for some reason, I got such a visual when I read your "spankings" comment!
I can just see Kerry just giving poor wittle Miss Polier a real walloping!
The Democrats would just say it shows he can use "discipline" as a president.

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2004-2-16 10:37:39 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-2-16 10:37:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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