Alleged Kerry Affair with Intern Draws Media Attention

Talon News ^ | February 13, 2004 | Jimmy Moore

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) has allegedly been involved in a two-year extramarital affair with an intern beginning in Spring 2001, according to The Drudge Report on Thursday.

Drudge said a full-scale investigation into this is underway at Time Magazine, ABC News, the Washington Post, the Hill, and the Associated Press.

"There is no lawsuit testimony this time [like former President Bill Clinton with Paula Jones]," a top source told Drudge Thursday night. "It is hard to prove."

When asked about the investigation on Thursday, Jack Stokes, a spokesman for the AP, told the Editor & Publisher, "We simply don't comment on stories we are pursuing or not pursuing."

In addition, the executive editor for The Washington Post, Leonard Downie, Jr., admitted the newspaper was looking into Kerry's past, but said he was not aware of an extramarital affair.

"What we're finding, I don't know," Downie exclaimed to the Editor & Publisher. "This is the first we are looking into him this way."

A source at one of the major television networks told Talon News that they are specifically forbidden to talk about this story on the air until one of the other major television networks reports on it first.

The unknown woman involved is a former employee for the AP, according to Drudge, and a previous intern with Kerry. Drudge states that she "recently fled the country, reportedly at the prodding of Kerry." The woman is allegedly in an undisclosed location in Africa after a top news producer approached her about her relationship to Kerry, Drudge reports.

A friend of the woman told her story to a reporter in late 2003 and said she had "fantastic stories" that may bring an end to the Kerry presidential campaign, Drudge continues.

Kerry is currently married to ketchup millionaire heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry.

Yet, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, who dropped out of the race on Wednesday and will officially endorse Kerry for the Democrat nomination today, told a group of reporters earlier this week, "Kerry will implode over an intern issue."

"Three reporters in attendance confirm Clark made the startling comments," Drudge contends. Actually, ShortNews.com reports Clark reluctantly confirmed he made the statement on Thursday.

These reporters who heard Clark make the statements are amazed the retired Army general would endorse Kerry.

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who last week said he would drop out of the race if he did not win the Wisconsin primary on February 17, apparently changed his mind because of these looming charges against Kerry, campaign officials told Drudge.

But Dean campaign officials said this is "absolutely false" and "didn't have anything to do with our decision" to remain in the race.

"I actually think it's too bad this is starting," an anonymous Dean campaign aide told Scotsman.com. "It has no relevance to the campaign."

Nevertheless, in the past few days, the criticism of Kerry has become more intense by the Dean campaign, including Dean describing Kerry as a part of "the corrupt political culture in Washington."

Yet Democratic sources imply the Republican Party had something to do with this and have accused them of playing "dirty tricks" in an attempt to smear the leading candidate to face Bush.

Kerry has been racking up big victories in primaries and caucuses for the Democrat nomination to face President George W. Bush in November. In all, he has won 12 of 14 states.

Kerry is expected to be in Wisconsin Friday campaigning for next Tuesday's primary election.

The Kerry campaign did not immediately return calls inquiring about these allegations. However, the embattled presidential candidate is scheduled to appear exclusively today on the Don Imus radio talk show to talk about these allegations made by Drudge.

Matt Drudge, who was responsible for breaking the story about Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky in 1998, cleared his web site for most of Thursday to devote space to this story.

But this is not the first time Kerry has been accused of being engaged in an extramarital affair.

While separated from his first wife, millionaire Julia Thorne, in the mid-1980s, Kerry was rumored to be linked to Morgan Fairchild, Cornelia Guest, and Patti Davis, the liberal daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Then, the Boston Globe reported last year that Kerry had an affair in the 1980s with a young British reporter while still married to Thorne. When she and the other alleged women eventually heard that Kerry was still married until 1988, it "came as a surprise to some of his frequent companions," according to the Boston Globe.

Last week, the Boston Herald's Inside Track had a story on a recent National Enquirer investigation into Kerry's "eye for Hollywood honeys" including Fairchild, Michele Philips, and Catherine Oxenberg. The Herald added that Fairchild and Philips were so disgusted by Kerry that they decided to give political contributions to other candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination instead of the Massachusetts senator.

The Boston Herald also noted that the National Enquirer story made note of a "22-year-old blonde who was spotted around midnight 'dropping off her resume' at Kerry's Louisburg Square home while wife Teresa Heinz was in Nantucket."

The Congressional Quarterly's Craig Crawford remarked that Chris Lahane, Clark's press secretary and a previous adviser to former Vice President Al Gore, has known about the Kerry affair story for a while and "has shopped around for a long time" to find someone to publish it.

Interestingly, Crawford states Lehane also briefly worked as an adviser for Kerry's latest presidential bid.

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

Crawford added that the affair story was "one reason the Gore vetters in 2000 shied away from Kerry as a running mate choice" because of the possibility it might get leaked and remind people of "Clinton's personal failings" with Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones.

Responding to questions about whether the Lewinsky affair during the Clinton impeachment was affecting his job as president, Kerry told the Boston Globe in a September 21, 2001 story, "I think it is entirely possible [the extramarital affair by Clinton] was a distraction that kept him from performing his duty as president."

Also, in a statement from the U.S. Senate's closed deliberations on the articles of impeachment against Clinton on February 12, 1999, Kerry made some rather intriguing comments about the former president's infidelity that reveal his thoughts on the matter.

Responding to criticism that Clinton's affair was corrupting American culture, Kerry defended the two-term Democrat president by saying the Clinton affair gave parents a tool for teaching their kids about various character flaws.

"If anything, there may now be a greater appreciation for the trouble you can get into for certain behavior," Kerry said in the statement at the time. "More parents are teaching their children about lying, about humiliation, about family hurt, about public responsibility, than before we ever heard the name of Monica Lewinsky."

Addressing the affair itself in the statement, Kerry said he was "deeply disturbed by" it, but said it was "understandable" that Clinton wanted to "cover it up."

Before this story about his alleged affair with an intern was released to the public, Kerry was already in hot water over a photograph showing Kerry with political activist Jane Fonda at a 1970 anti-war rally in Pennsylvania published on the front page of the Washington Times on Wednesday. Kerry has attempted to portray himself as a hero of the Vietnam War, but has distanced himself from the aggressive protests he took part in after he returned from the war.

Some political observers are already speculating that this latest turmoil in the Democrat presidential race is laying the groundwork for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) to become the nominee in a brokered Democrat convention in Boston this summer.

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A source at one of the major television networks told Talon News that they are specifically forbidden to talk about this story on the air until one of the other major television networks reports on it first.

Oh, no that's good. So if all of the major networks take this line, then no one reports it?

[shhrubbery!]

Yes, but Drudge needs some more info, or this is going nowhere in the mainstream. This is looking like a disinfo setup by someone.

Well if it's a set-up by anyone, it'd have to be by Gen. Ashley Wilkes Clark.

Or by the people behind him.

[jim35]

Oh, gross. Thanks for that image.

[Ryan Bailey]

' Drudge better have some facts and quicko, or he's dead on the water '


The same way Woodward and Bernstein 'found facts' about President Nixon. The media gave them a pass on needing verification, Their story is currently in the history books, without any corroboration.

Meanwhile the great newspapers of the world are running these corroborated and undeniable facts, while the US media is too busy camapigning against Bush, running 'new' low confidence polls and AWOL allegations, I've not seen such a partisan media in my lifetime, its irresponsible and sickening.

The media is currently giving the biggest pass ever to Kerry, Drudge didn't leak the story General Clark did, this is a democrat infight.

There is no excuse for the US Media's sitting on this story while running the AWOL allegations against Pres. Bush.

We all have a valuable lesson to learn here, the media cannot print negative unvetted stories, unless their about GOP Presidents.

[cyncooper]

I just heard the first hint from MSNBC on this story.

Here's how it was framed:

The blond anchor had a male reporter on the phone that has been with the Kerry campaign, and she asked him if the Senator was ready to face an onslaught he is sure to face now that he's in the lead.

The reporter said the campaign told him that Kerry has prepared himself for an attack from the republicans and he's faced them throughout his career and they don't scare him.

Of course, since they didn't address the story directly they didn't discuss (not that they necessarily would) that it was dem operatives and Clark passing the story around, and they didn't refer to what kind of "onslaught", but that was the first hint I heard from them.

Be ready: That's the tack. I saw on Imus they all agreed the Clintons were behind the story. Thank goodness they saw that right up front.

[Verginius Rufus]

I guess the fact that Kerry is still alive shows that he is innocent of infidelity, since Mrs. Ketchup would have killed him if he had had any affairs. End of story.

[jimbo123]

ALEXANDRA POLIER NEW YORK, NY

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WORCESTER, MA

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[Verginius Rufus]

The Democrats' campaign of vitriol against Bush has been virtually non-stop since he became a candidate in 1999 (with a very brief pause after 9-11)...probably the most intense and prolonged hatefest any President has faced since Abraham Lincoln, and more of the same seems to be their strategy for the 2004 election. Therefore they need to make the public think the Republicans are just as bad or worse in this regard...this story could be the "evidence" they need (despite the fact that it was Democrats who leaked it).

If it turns out that there was no affair with this particular intern, it can help inoculate Kerry against stories of other women with whom he really did have affairs...and the Democrats can use the Alex Polier story as "proof" of Republican dirty tricks.

[Your Nightmare]

What exactly is the press suppose to report? Are there any real facts to this story? I honestly find Drudge's style of "reporting" much more disgusting that the "lamestream press."

[Elsie]

Psst.....

These pockets gots no bottoms in them............

[jwalburg]

lol

[Deo volente]

"Some political observers are already speculating that this latest turmoil in the Democrat presidential race is laying the groundwork for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) to become the nominee in a brokered Democrat convention in Boston this summer"


THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE STORY.

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Last week, the Boston Herald's Inside Track had a story on a recent National Enquirer investigation into Kerry's "eye for Hollywood honeys" including Fairchild, Michele Philips, and Catherine Oxenberg. The Herald added that Fairchild and Philips were so disgusted by Kerry that they decided to give political contributions to other candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination instead of the Massachusetts senator.

I heard from someone in an Olde Money and Very Connected family that Kerry has many many grab-ass problems. The story he told me was that a young woman intern who was had also worked as a fashion model for top-tier designers was also "disgusted" and - get this - thought Kerry was retarded. Yes. A blonde runway model thought John F-ing Kerry was STUPID, in addition to being boorish. Laughed my ass off.

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He'll get it. This is just the start.

[eno_]

It's hard to imagine that within about 3 years of the Lewinsky scandal, a high-profile Democrat would have an affair with an intern

These people are 100% convinced the rules do not apply to them. They breathe more of their own gas than any other human beings. There isn't anything they think they can't get away with.

[per loin]

Nope. She talked about maiming her husband if he brought home a venereal disease.

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When asked about the investigation on Thursday, Jack Stokes, a spokesman for the AP, told the Editor & Publisher, "We simply don't comment on stories we are pursuing or not pursuing."

"Unless, of course, it supports our agenda of placing anti-American socialists and deviants in positions of power", Stokes added.

[smiley]

One of our many genius Freepers should get a photo-shot of the movie "Dirty Old Men" and paste Kerry's, Clinton's and Ted Kennedy's faces on it.

[Contra]

This may have already been used and if it has, forgive me, but you know how Clinton said "better put some ice on that?" Kerry can say "better put some ketchup on that."

[smiley]

You are absolutely correct.