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(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
I notice I would be professional enough to work at Drudge's. Here's an example of my work, as a journalist in mafia games:
THE VILLAGE CLARION
Exclusive!
Rah and HongHu: Sweet Love or Basic Instinct?
After a long and difficult investigation, our team has finally found the evidence about the last events shaking the village.
The shocking truth is that our Mayor, RAH, has been revealed as the illegitimate lover of HongHu.
For some time now, HongHu has brought the Sun on our village, making each day brighter with her smile. But it didn't take long for some Hawks to prey on her innocence.
These days, the regulars at Guynemer's could see HongHu's wonderful smile didn't have the same feel. We can all agree it seemed sour, forced.
You don't need to look further than RAH to understand the cause of this. Indeed, our mayor got his claws on the poor woman. Our beloved HongHu could be hoping for love in our village. She only found brutality in his dreadful hand.
By his own admission, RAH "knocked her up", showing, if not bragging, that he considers our sweet dove as a mere toy. He even had the gall to give reasons for such behaviour.
"Someone had to it" said he. Yes, he was the only one of us cynical enough to be that brutal, that unconsiderate with her. We, at the Village Clarion, cannot understand how a prominent personality such as our mayor can dare call a young lady "kind of wimpy".
HongHu, presumably despaired by her relationship, was unavailable for comment.
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
Alexandra Polier's only known ties to Kerry are through a top aide, campaign finance director Peter Maroney.
A Columbia University classmate of Polier told The News that Maroney introduced her to Kerry in 2001 at an economic summit in Switzerland. "She met with [Kerry] again when the forum came to New York in 2002," the classmate said.
Maroney could not be reached for comment yesterday.
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[A] strategist from a rival Democratic campaign warned Kerry was not safe yet if it turns out he lied. "Bill Clinton had the charm to wiggle out of those attacks. Kerry simply doesn't have that going for him," the strategist said.
The rumor of an affair with Kerry was fueled by dropout Democratic candidate Wesley Clark's claim to reporters that the Massachusetts senator would soon "implode" over an intern scandal. A day after that news broke and rumors escalated, Clark endorsed Kerry.
There's no public evidence that John Kerry has played around on the Widow Heinz, but the poor guy probably has 57 varieties of trouble at home, anyway.
That's because wives nearly always operate from a lower standard of proof than mainstream newspapers, rarely requiring multiple sources, and suspicion alone is usually enough to convict. Some of that ketchup in the Heinz-Kerry boudoir might be blood.
This is the story Washington loves. Adultery, usually defined here as "what adults do," is not unknown in the ranks of pundits and pols, but in Washington, figuring out where the story comes from is often more interesting than the story itself. Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: "Do it unto others before they do it unto you."
Since the political is personal, sex is the favorite weapon of choice. The Widow Heinz boasts that if she ever catches the famous war hero in flagrante delicto, she will maim, not kill, and for the moment Mr. Kerry is no doubt wearing some sort of protective contraption under his thousand-dollar suits, just in case. So far, he appears to be intact.
This little episode actually says more about everybody else than it tells us about the famous war hero. The war hero himself said it ain't so (sort of), and yesterday the mystery lady herself said it ain't so. The senator's denial smelled vaguely clintonesque: "Well, there's nothing to report. So there's nothing to talk about. I'm not worried about it. No. The answer is no." But only a Yankee bereft of gallantry or chivalric impulse would pursue this one further.
Skeptics are, however, entitled to be a little bit suspicious. All that manufactured hysteria about whether George W. Bush missed an Air National Guard drill or two, more than 30 years ago, looked like it might have been intended to distract attention from an intern scandal the Kerry camp knew, or was afraid, was coming.
We should have known that war heroes don't do things like that. And only a churl would think there's anything suspicious about how and why the father of the mystery lady, who only last week described Mr. Kerry as "a sleazeball" and said he didn't want his daughter to have anything to do with such a man, yesterday, after being visited by an epiphany, praised the senator's kindness and character. He even promised to vote for him. Every father understands that a man applying to be his daughter's sugar daddy is held to a different standard than a man who only wants to be president of the United States. You wouldn't necessarily want President Sleazeball to be your lover-in-law.
Different standards, in fact, are exactly what the Kerry contretemps are all about. The way the editors and television news directors have danced around the story, holding their noses with dainty fingers, trading gossip like a gaggle of old women and aiming readers at the Internet, contrasts starkly to the way some of the same editors, pundits and news directors treated similar unconfirmed and even unfounded rumors of presidential philandering in the past.
Matt Drudge, whose drudgereport.com is the most frequently consulted Internet source of tips and gossip in every newsroom in town, yesterday shamed a few media celebrities who disdain sexual gossip about Democrats, but who can't wait to dish the dirt about Republicans. He cites the likes of Stone Phillips, the pretty face-in-waiting at NBC; Jonathan Alter of Newsweek; and Joe Conason of the New York Observer as guilty of applying partisan standards to presidential hanky-panky.
Mr. Alter, in a fit of high-mindedness that soon passed, once wrote that presidential candidates must be asked "tough, often distasteful but nonetheless important kinds of questions." That was when the candidate was a Republican. Last week, Mr. Alter denounced as "sleazy" even asking Mr. Kerry such "important kinds of questions." Mr. Conason, one of the most devoted of the Clinton acolytes, sneers that Matt Drudge is a mere cog in "the GOP smear machine," but he wrote in 1992 that the first of a thousand reasons not to vote for George H.W. Bush was that "he cheats on his wife." (He never apologized when the rumor was discredited.)
Anyone who was awake during the Clinton years has to wonder what all the commotion is about. Even if true, there wouldn't be enough juice in the "Kerry intern scandal" to stain anybody's frock. Bubba would jog through scandals of this caliber twice before breakfast. If the Widow Heinz is looking for wifely consolation, she shouldn't call Hillary.
Wesley Pruden is editor in chief of The Times.
I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry,
Fine (not that I give a damn either way) but couldn't she have found some other way of saying that? It reminds me horrifically of another well-known quote.
POLITICS ASIDE, the quick endorsement of John Kerry by presidential candidate emeritus Wesley Clark might best be understood as an act of contrition for two egregious sins that ironically serve as bookends for this month's degrading detour into campaign slime.
The sin of commission occurred during an astonishing, even for a rookie, judgment lapse with the gaggle of reporters covering his campaign on its final day last week. Bantering with them at length under supposedly off-the-record ground rules, Clark actually said he was still in the race because he thought Kerry's campaign was going to implode over what he inelegantly called an "intern" scandal.
The sin of omission occurred in January, when Clark stood mute while filmmaker Michael Moore referred to President Bush as a "deserter" during the Vietnam War era while endorsing Clark.
February 17, 2004--For the first time since winning in Iowa, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has seen his national poll numbers slip. The latest Rasmussen Reports national tracking poll shows that Kerry now attracts support from 43% of the nation's Democrats, down from 51% three days ago.
North Carolina Senator John Edwards is a distant second but gaining. The North Carolina Senator now attracts support from 25% of the nation's Democrats, up from 18% three days ago.
Nationally, Howard Dean is supported by 13% of Democrats at this time.
Originally posted by Ned
There's no public evidence that John Kerry has played around on the Widow Heinz, but the poor guy probably has 57 varieties of trouble at home, anyway.
That's because wives nearly always operate from a lower standard of proof than mainstream newspapers, rarely requiring multiple sources, and suspicion alone is usually enough to convict. Some of that ketchup in the Heinz-Kerry boudoir might be blood.
This is the story Washington loves. Adultery, usually defined here as "what adults do," is not unknown in the ranks of pundits and pols, but in Washington, figuring out where the story comes from is often more interesting than the story itself. Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: "Do it unto others before they do it unto you."
Since the political is personal, sex is the favorite weapon of choice. The Widow Heinz boasts that if she ever catches the famous war hero in flagrante delicto, she will maim, not kill, and for the moment Mr. Kerry is no doubt wearing some sort of protective contraption under his thousand-dollar suits, just in case. So far, he appears to be intact.
This little episode actually says more about everybody else than it tells us about the famous war hero. The war hero himself said it ain't so (sort of), and yesterday the mystery lady herself said it ain't so. The senator's denial smelled vaguely clintonesque: "Well, there's nothing to report. So there's nothing to talk about. I'm not worried about it. No. The answer is no." But only a Yankee bereft of gallantry or chivalric impulse would pursue this one further.
Skeptics are, however, entitled to be a little bit suspicious. All that manufactured hysteria about whether George W. Bush missed an Air National Guard drill or two, more than 30 years ago, looked like it might have been intended to distract attention from an intern scandal the Kerry camp knew, or was afraid, was coming.
We should have known that war heroes don't do things like that. And only a churl would think there's anything suspicious about how and why the father of the mystery lady, who only last week described Mr. Kerry as "a sleazeball" and said he didn't want his daughter to have anything to do with such a man, yesterday, after being visited by an epiphany, praised the senator's kindness and character. He even promised to vote for him. Every father understands that a man applying to be his daughter's sugar daddy is held to a different standard than a man who only wants to be president of the United States. You wouldn't necessarily want President Sleazeball to be your lover-in-law.
Different standards, in fact, are exactly what the Kerry contretemps are all about. The way the editors and television news directors have danced around the story, holding their noses with dainty fingers, trading gossip like a gaggle of old women and aiming readers at the Internet, contrasts starkly to the way some of the same editors, pundits and news directors treated similar unconfirmed and even unfounded rumors of presidential philandering in the past.
Matt Drudge, whose drudgereport.com is the most frequently consulted Internet source of tips and gossip in every newsroom in town, yesterday shamed a few media celebrities who disdain sexual gossip about Democrats, but who can't wait to dish the dirt about Republicans. He cites the likes of Stone Phillips, the pretty face-in-waiting at NBC; Jonathan Alter of Newsweek; and Joe Conason of the New York Observer as guilty of applying partisan standards to presidential hanky-panky.
Mr. Alter, in a fit of high-mindedness that soon passed, once wrote that presidential candidates must be asked "tough, often distasteful but nonetheless important kinds of questions." That was when the candidate was a Republican. Last week, Mr. Alter denounced as "sleazy" even asking Mr. Kerry such "important kinds of questions." Mr. Conason, one of the most devoted of the Clinton acolytes, sneers that Matt Drudge is a mere cog in "the GOP smear machine," but he wrote in 1992 that the first of a thousand reasons not to vote for George H.W. Bush was that "he cheats on his wife." (He never apologized when the rumor was discredited.)
Anyone who was awake during the Clinton years has to wonder what all the commotion is about. Even if true, there wouldn't be enough juice in the "Kerry intern scandal" to stain anybody's frock. Bubba would jog through scandals of this caliber twice before breakfast. If the Widow Heinz is looking for wifely consolation, she shouldn't call Hillary.
Wesley Pruden is editor in chief of The Times.
Ned, in the interest of bypartisanship why don't you tell us about Cheneys daughter, and how her private life would portray the Bush administrations policy on certain issues as hypocritical.
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