is just being the media left... 
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Posted on 09/04/2004 9:33:49 AM PDT by harrycarey
A Kitty Surprise? ROGER SIMON COLUMN SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
NEW YORK - - Republican insiders have been huddling in small groups at the Republican Convention this week and talking about what worries them most. It is not John Kerry. It is not the unemployment numbers. It is not Iraq.
It is Kitty Kelley.
Kelley has a new book coming out in a few weeks titled "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty” and it is rumored to be explosive.
One source tells me there are “at least five bombshells” contained in it and another source says there is allegedly new material on President Bush’s service in the Air National Guard.
Democrats have long been worried about a Republican “October Surprise” such as the capture of Osama bin Laden. But now some Republicans are worried that Kelley’s book will be the equivalent of an October surprise and harmful to President Bush’s re-election hopes.
Why are GOP operatives taking such a book seriously? After all, some critics have dismissed Kelley’s previous books as the equivalent of tabloid journalism. But in November 2000, the Bush campaign’s internal polling showed that revelations about Bush’s 1976 arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol damaged him badly with religious conservatives and some analysts believe it cost him a popular vote victory.
So this time, Bush operatives don’t want any more big surprises, revelations, rumors or gossip to make a media splash just weeks before the election.
Which is why they are so nervous. According to the Associated Press, the Kelley opus - - it is supposed to be around 700 pages long - - is being billed as "the book the Bushes don't want you to read,” it has a first printing of 600,000 and “a virtual guarantee to annoy, if not embarrass, Bush supporters.”
In the past, Kelley has written books about Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra and the British Royal Family among others and her books have often contained explosive material. Kelley’s facts are sometimes challenged, but her books tend to make a big splash nonetheless.
Kelley’s 1991 book on Nancy Reagan, for example, which contained scandalous accusations, was the subject of a front page story in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd.
“Ms. Kelley has developed a reputation as a giant killer for her sensational books about the rich and famous,” Dowd wrote. “She wrote that Jacqueline Kennedy had shock treatments; that President John F. Kennedy's retarded sister, Rosemary, had a lobotomy, and that Frank Sinatra's mother was a New Jersey abortionist.”
Dowd went on: “Ms. Kelley asserts that Mrs. Reagan will go down in history as the cold and glittering icon for a morally vacuous era. The author says the former First Lady reinvented herself with a tissue of fabrications about her background, age and family, just as her free-spirited mother did before her; that she had her nose fixed and her eyes lifted; that both the Reagans had extramarital affairs, and that Mrs. Reagan had a long-term affair with Frank Sinatra.”
The article quoted Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, as saying that "no friend of Nancy Reagan's is going to read that scummy book."
Perhaps, but plenty of other people did read it and many more read about it. And this, remember, was in an era before 24-hour cable TV and media with an insatiable appetite for news, gossip, rumor, innuendo or whatever they can get.
It may turn out, of course, that Kelley’s new book contains nothing damaging to President Bush.
But with their convention going so well, Republicans have to find something to worry about this week.
It reveals alleged sex offenses against minors by Dubya's father.
It reveals the use of the White House by male hookers under Dubya.
It reveals Bush's evil plans for YOU (details of which you will have to get elsewhere), which should alarm you.
It reveals crooked business deals by every member of the Bush clan, including the oh-so-holy first lady, Laura "Round Heels" Bush.
It reveals how former first lady Babs Bush is almost a practicing witch.
It reveals how Dubya has had a very special friend in the mayor of a Tennessee city, who has has cohabited the Texas ranch many times.
It reveals the details of embarassing photographs of Bush that actually caused U.S. Govt. agents to perpetrate the anthrax mailings to destroy the building of National Enquirer and kill photo editor Stevens.
Drudge-Larry King Refuses to Book Kitty Kelly on Program over 'Outrageous' Accustations in Bush Book
Drudge Report ^ | 8/30/04 | Matt Drudge
Posted on 08/30/2004 9:32:38 AM EDT by gopwinsin04
Anyone else catch some more details on the radio last night about this..(Kitty Kelly's 5 year expose on the Bush dynasty)
I caught the tail end of the discussion with Lucianne Goldberg, has anyone heard what may be in this book?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202947/posts
"It reveals the details of embarassing photographs of Bush that actually caused U.S. Govt. agents to perpetrate the anthrax mailings to destroy the building of National Enquirer and kill photo editor Stevens."
I thought that anthrax mailing was supposed to be revenge for printing a story that Bin Laden had a small penis?
sounds ridiculous
You're kidding, right?
Something like that would completely put the last nail in the democrats coffin.
I'd vouch for the wooden stake.
yawn...
Where did you hear that nonsense?
Wow! This is really going to give Bush an even bigger lead. What do they think, people are as stupid as the old media?
So now the President is gay and Laura is a slut? Please. This will hurt the RATS, not the President.
maybe she should marry Michael Moore
Move on nothing new to see here
w2004
ciao
spitball kerry priceless
is just being the media left...
B.S. (And that isn't Barbra Streisand.)
Another web source? -- put up or shut up.
If that's what they're going to spew, let them.
Back in the 2000 campaign, the outrageous left tried to float rumors that while in the Alabama ANG working on his friend's political campaign, young Bush dated a girl who became pregnant and had an abortion. I would not be surprised if this story is floated again.
Of course, I expect the MSM to show the same reluctance to report any of KK's material until they have verified it- as they did with the story of Kerry's sideline toot with Alexandra Whatsername/sarcasm.
I first hear about "outrageous accusations" as reasons why Larry King would not have her on his show. (FR Thread)
Now the DUers are all excited about trashing Bush and his private life.
This is not going to be some obscure web site accusation.
These will be coming from Kitty Kelly, a "respected" author. (At least respected by the MSM)
Yup. More fodder for the Mickey Moore Kool-Aid drinkers.
Yawn.
With the hurricane, what's going on in Russia, and what's going on (apparently) at LAX, I think coverage of this might be a bit subdued.
I thought they were trying to smear Bush....withcraft, co-habitation with someone "special", male hookers, sexual activity with minors...isn't this the Democratic party base?
The question is not if, but how much time 60 mintes will give her?
What--no Trilateralist Commission?
The difference between Kitty Kelley and the old biddy neighbourhood gossip is that Kitty Kelley gets paid hefty publishers' advances to peddle her trash.
Yawn
Good grief are these folks blind. Mrs Reagan will go down in history as the woman who genuinely loved and unstintingly supported the greatest President of our age. Of course Dowd, Kelley and the rest of this self-loathing nihilistic crowd wouldn't know love and support if it hit them across the face with a dead fish.
Kitty Kelly is a whack job
Allegations in "other Web source" are so scuzzy, they'll only interest the Jerry Springer crowd, every single one of whom is a Kerry voter. If they believe the Bush's are child abusers and witches, they may vote Repub.
But Kitty Kelley does make quite a spash with her books, lots of publicity, interviews, all that stuff. It could be damaging. But we have PLENTY of dirt to throw at Kerry, above and beyond his Vietnam lies. I happen to KNOW JK went after underage girls in Boston and DC. I'm sure ahout the underage thing, but come to think of it, it may be boys too. His predatory sexual tendencies are necessarily common knowledge on the Beltway. Release of Kelley's book slamming Bush could shiver the timbers of the Kerry campaign, as they'd fear much more damning retaliatory revelations.
There is what I call bash Bush fatigue. Just another Michael Moore scandal sheet filled with inuendo.
I expect a back lash against this hate Bush stuff.
Oh! I hope that this book gets released ASAP. This will create just the backlash we need against the Democrats and the MSM to ensure smooth-sailing into November.
Kitty Kelly's reputation proceeds her :)
What is the other web source?
From Newsmax last May:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/19/114949.shtml
Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:45 a.m. EDT
Kitty Kelley Penning 'Coup de Grace' for Bush Dynasty?
Richard Clarke, Bob Woodward and indefatigable privacy maven Joe Wilson have had their shot at torpedoing President Bush's re-election. Now it's Kitty Kelley's turn, with her book "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty" due out just after Labor Day.
Described by one media fan as "a fastidious fact-checker with an unrivaled knack for zingers such as stories of coathanger abortions," Kelley is said to have "Karl Rove's head swimming" with her latest screed.
Her last political hit piece, a 1991 bio of Nancy Reagan, purported to reveal a so-called affair with Frank Sinatra.
After the New York Times front-paged the improbable tale, Timeswoman Maureen Dowd defended her coverage thusly:
"Of course, the book is tawdry. Of course the book is, in some spots, loosely sourced and over the top. ... Of course, there are mistakes in it. ... The point, however, is that Kelley's portrait is not essentially untrue."
I have to give credit to Larry King for refusing to have her on. Kelley is just a female Larry Flynt/Michael Moore. May they all sink in their own muck.
120 minutes, 180 minutes, 240 minutes... whatever it takes :-)
Im going to need a second source from any author named 'Kitty..'
HERE....KITTY,KITTY,KITTY!
His arse.
Didn't I mention that the Dems would try to smear Bush as a closet queen? As a matter of fact, I did that this morning.
I am nothing if not clairvoyant.
Kelly's role in all this is simple: sell books.
Barbara Bush as a practicing witch? That's actually stranger than the Gay charge.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Yeah, that's what I thought.
When I saw on Druge that Larry King would not book her because of her unfounded accusations, I thought Trilateralist conspiracy stuff.
Personally, I think this book, combined with the protests in NYC, will drive all the undecideds into the Republican camp.
Kitty Kelley does not know who she is messing with. Barbara Bush will never stand for her husband being accused of sex abuse of minors, for one thing.
"The point, however, is that Kelley's portrait is not essentially untrue."
I remember this trash being on pg. 1 of the NY Times. I also remember their revelation of the name and "history" of the woman who accuesed William Kennedy Smith of rape, also the Time's never calling him anything but William Smith, as if he were just some average Joe. As if they'd've been covering his trial if that were the case.
They may want to blame Jayson Blair, but Blair was the result, not the cause, of their deep and irreversible decline.
Not so fast! If Maureen Dowd vouches for Kitty, I'm persuaded!
-dead fish or a still living serviceMan. They never know as roaches and other vermin never know.
Another half-ass "Fortunate Son" I see....
Of course it does - and it always comes down to the same thing - you either trust and believe in GWB and in this case his family - although the family isn't on the ballot, or you believe the perps of professional hatchet jobs.
Concerning the new Bush book, I guess a preview could be found here: Similar tripe about the Bushes
Just read that over at DU a couple of minutes ago.
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