BREAKING NEWS:KERRY MEDIA PROBE OF ALLEGED RECENT INFIDELITY

[TYLERTECHSAS]

THU FEB 12, 2004 11:45:28 ET XXXXX

CAMPAIGN DRAMA ROCKS DEMOCRATS: KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN

**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**

A frantic behind-the-scenes drama is unfolding around Sen. John Kerry and his quest to lockup the Democratic nomination for president, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

Intrigue surrounds a woman who recently fled the country, reportedly at the prodding of Kerry, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

A serious investigation of the woman and the nature of her relationship with Sen. John Kerry has been underway at TIME magazine, ABC NEWS, the WASHINGTON POST, THE HILL and the ASSOCIATED PRESS, where the woman in question once worked.

MORE

A close friend of the woman first approached a reporter late last year claiming fantastic stories -- stories that now threaten to turn the race for the presidency on its head!

In an off-the-record conversation with a dozen reporters earlier this week, General Wesley Clark plainly stated: "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." [Three reporters in attendance confirm Clark made the startling comments.]
The Kerry commotion is why Howard Dean has turned increasingly aggressive against Kerry in recent days, and is the key reason why Dean reversed his decision not to drop out of the race after Wisconsin, top campaign sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://www.drudgereport.com/mattjk1.htm

[Cal&Ken]

If this is true, it would certainly make the process more interesting. It might keep them from trashing Bush as much too which would be a welcome change.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

It will be interesting to see how long it will take for the major media networks to put this "out there". I bet it is running up and down the chain of commands as we speak. This guy broke the Monica news as well. Oh well!

[Champ967]

Doesnt this happen in EVERY election year ... somebody gets a scandal accusation???

yawn.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

You can bet nobody is YAWNING in the KERRY household right about now! How sad if true.

[DCDAWG]

Here's another news flash:
Source Says Clark Set to Endorse Kerry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Feb12.html
If Clark really thinks Kerry's campaign will "implode" why would he do this?

[Cal&Ken]

Who else could he choose? The choices are not great.

[DCDAWG]

Who else could he choose? The choices are not great.

He doesn't have to choose anybody.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

This story will have legs DC. Probably long pretty ones at that.

[DCDAWG]

This story will have legs DC. Probably long pretty ones at that.

And I thought Republicans were humorless.

[CARTEK]

[quote:d213c90c23="TYLERTECHSAS"]This story will have legs DC. Probably long pretty ones at that.

And I thought Republicans were humorless. :laugh:[/quote:d213c90c23]

DC,

I agree with you, probably for the first time, that Clark need not endorse anyone. As far a Republicans and humor, we have good senses of humor...we also enjoy the fleshly pleasures when and where appropriate. Long legs are a prerequisite for me...my wife has two of 'em!

[Bossdawg]

About the whole dental record release thing. A prominent democrat actully said, It doesn't prove Bush was there, only his teeth. What?

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Man, this election is going to get "down and dirty".

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Kerry sex scandal lurking?
Internet report cites suspicions
By WILLIAM BUNCH
bunchw@phillynews.com

Here we go again?

The worlds of politics and the media were all atwitter yesterday over a report on the popular Internet site, the Drudge Report, that Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry - the Democratic presidential front-runner - may be brought down by a sex scandal.

Six years ago, it was a similar item on the Drudge Report that brought the world's attention to the affair between then-President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky - sparking the scandal that led to Clinton's impeachment.

Late last night, Matt Drudge - the conservative gossipmeister who runs the site - said several leading TV networks and newspapers had been trying to confirm an alleged relationship between Kerry, who is married to ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, and a young woman that started in spring 2001. An earlier item said the woman had worked for the Associated Press for a short time.

"After being approached by a top news producer, the woman fled to Africa, where she remains, the Drudge Report can reveal," the Web site breathlessly reported. Drudge also suggested that the woman left the country at Kerry's behest.

But there's one huge problem with the story, which raced through newsrooms across the country like a computer virus: Nobody has been able to confirm that it was true.

"This rumor has been out there for months and months," Neil Oxman, the prominent Democratic consultant based in Philadelphia, said last night. He said there were various versions, including several that had Kerry dating a young woman well before the 2000 election, when Al Gore looked at Kerry as a potential running mate.

Oxman said there's just no way to judge whether the story is really damaging to the Kerry campaign until any facts come out.

Even stranger, the Drudge item said that Wesley Clark, the retired general and former candidate, spread the rumor by telling a group of stunned reporters that "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." But then it was reported last night that Clark today will endorse Kerry - the decorated Vietnam War candidate who has captured 13 of 15 Democratic primaries and caucuses.

Indeed, other accounts last night said Clark was instead referring to Kerry's reportedly wild bachelor days between the breakup of his first marriage and his 1996 wedding to Teresa Heinz Kerry. Kerry reportedly dated actress Morgan Fairchild and other starlets.

Numerous fingers for the uproar were pointed last night at Clark's top aide, Chris Lehane, who was Gore's campaign press secretary in 2000. Washington insider Craig Crawford of Congressional Quarterly said in a widely circulated e-mail that Lehane had been "shopping" the story to reporters for a long time.

"The Kerry camp has long expected to deal with this, and have assured party leaders they can handle it," he said.

If the story were true, Kerry would have a harder time handling his wife, the widow of Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, who was killed in a 1991 midair collision in Lower Merion.

She told Elle magazine that she warned her first husband on the subject of adultery: "If you ever get something, I'll maim you. I won't kill you. I'll maim you."


http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/...printstory.jsp

[TYLERTECHSAS]

New update. One of many sources "out there"!



John Kerry girl tells all

Affair ... Alex Polier




From BRIAN FLYNN
in New York

THE beauty said to have had a fling with presidential hopeful John Kerry has recorded a bombshell tell-all interview.

Journalist Alex Polier taped a talk with a US TV network at Christmas.

The former Washington intern, 27, told all about an alleged fling with the 60-year-old super-rich senator in spring 2001.



Hopeful ... John Kerry


The channel is sitting on the tape until it has enough evidence to back her story.

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

Kerry, a married dad of two, has denied the fling. But Alex told pals she fled to Kenya on his suggestion.

One TV source said: “She wants to tell her story. She has talked at length about her relationship with Kerry. But no one is believing her.”

Kerry was front-runner for the Democratic nomination to take on George Bush in November.

His hopes were hit as hints of a scandal emerged

One of many sources "out there"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004072203,00.html