Kerry, his campaign, his supporters, and Democrats like myself stand ready for your apologies for your behavior yesterday.
NEVER TRUST DRUDGE OR THE RIGHT WING MEDIA!!
That was your mistake yesterday.
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"KERRY AFFAIR" REDUX: MUCH LESS THAN IT APPEARS. John Kerry was hit on Thursday by the Drudge Report site with vague and factually shifting allegations of marital infidelity. One day later, there appears to be little to the story besides well-circulated old gossip. An Australian newspaper conducted an interview with the Pennsylvania parents of the 24-year-old woman at issue. The woman's father called Kerry a "sleaze-ball" in his comments and the woman's mother said she believed Kerry had been "after" her daughter. Beyond that, the parents admitted that they have no knowledge that Kerry ever had sex -- or any intimate relationship -- with their daughter. In fact, the only specific they could offer is that Kerry had once "called his daughter 'two or three years ago' to ask her to work on his [2002] re-election team." Kerry himself directly responded to the allegations Friday morning on the Imus radio show, saying that "there's nothing to report, nothing to talk about. There's nothing there. There's no story."
DREDGING DRUDGE. It is always amusing to see the irony each time Internet scoopster Matt Drudge takes aim at the private life of political figure. Why ironic? Because Drudge seems to go to great lengths to deny he's gay and protect his own privacy, even though he's been repeatedly outed as gay. Writer David Brock, MSNBC reporter Jeannette Walls and others reported on this. Actually, Brock tells how Drudge repeatedly hit on him for two of them to have sex. Drudge even does his writing these days from his home in South Beach, a heavily gay enclave in the Miami Beach area. As for Brock's claimed "Exclusive!" on Kerry's sex life this week, there appear to be a few problems. First, it wasn't even an exclusive as another web site reported the sketchy details a week ago (but no one noticed because the other political blog site has a small audience). Second, Drudge kept rewriting his "Exclusive!" throughout the day and his details kept shifting. The dates changed, the settings changed, etc. Is the Kerry story another one like his Sidney Blumenthal story that turned out to be total fiction ... or is it one of those he got more-or-less right? Then again, Drudge himself once flippantly told CNN that his stories are only "80% accurate." Is this little Drudge column a cheap shot at him? Yes! But is it well deserved? Yes! (And -- FYI -- I'd react the same Drudge did similar to President Bush or anyone else before bothering to get his facts straight.)