Posted on 09/07/2004 9:11:56 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
Paul Harvey's radio sub, Gil Gross, repeated Kitty Kelly's charges that W used cocaine at Camp David many years ago. This came on at noon on WABC. He didn't say that the only source was an angry ex-wife of the president's brother. Even Newsweek refused to print these charges with only one source.
Haven't we been through this already? Is this all the opposition has to offer? This must be desperation.
Yet...
Wouldn't have surprised me if the Most Boring Man on Earth had said it himself. (I despise Paul Harvey.)
Don't speak ill of the dead (he just hasn't realized it yet)
So we are to believe that he quit drinking before his father became president but did Coke. This is a bunch of crap, who wants to wager the Kelly shows up on Matthews
Ha! They better be careful with this one. The righties won't believe it, and the lefties won't disapprove!
I agree ...no one (except the usual 20-25% and those that want to believe!) will believe this. He might have done Coke as in Coca-Cola!! This one is laughable.
Gil Gross co-anchored ABC's national radio news coverage of the RNC with Sam Donaldson. He is absolutely in the tank for Kerry. I'd think Harvey would be furious.
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Gil Gross is left left left.....
I was surprised to hear this on his show, also. The book and its contents will be all over the networks soon enough. She planned this timing perfectly for maximum effect.
Kitty Kelly is a very unsavory character...and she loves the spotlight each time she writes one of these books. She must have a very empty personal life. What man would even want her....she would be hell-on-wheels during a divorce.
The Kitty Kelley charges were reported last night as news on the local ABC news affiliate in Chicago by Ron Majers. The charges are also in the morning newspaper. The lack of truth will not stop the MSM if they can bring the President down.
Folks Our guy has basically admitted to doing "wrong things" in the past. If you believe people can be redeemed and changed I think this should not bother you at all. I believe if Bush had not had such a wild life and been redeemed he wouldn't be president today.
I think that is what makes Bush's down to earth perspective so rich that he doesnt seemed to be curruptable now since he recovered from that lifestyle. He knows WHO helped him recover.
So what Im saying is who cares what Kitty Kelly says bout his past, the key is that behavior is in the past.
I was furious and shocked that someone would defame the president in ONE SENTENCE and then move on to another topic, as though he had stated an absolute fact.
I'm thinking that Gil Gross will repeat this charge on every newscast that he can.
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Well, now Newsweek has a second source, The Paul Harvey Show!
I wonder if the ex-sister-in-law will be the person the MSM interviews to get the story out? That way they can disavow Kitty Kelly and say they went straight to the source.
"Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned."
I agree. This is not going to go down well with him at all.
Paul Harvey has always been the conservative voice of the heartland. I've been a fan since the mid Seventies and have his three Rest of the Story books.
YAWN
I don't know anyone who listens to Paul Harvey any more. I can't stand the way he mixes advertisements in with the drivel he calls the news. It reminds me of an infomercial. I also don't know any one who puts any credibility in a Kitty Kelley Book.
Thanks for the post. I wouldn't have heard it otherswise. But really what Paul Harvy does and what Kelley writes really doesn't matter any more.
The hit is also mistimed, coming with plenty of time for the campaign to react, unlike the DUI hit four years ago.
I don't want to underestimate what a sleazy thing this newscast was, and I listen to it everyday. So do millions of other people in the NYC area.
It was also mentioned on C-SPAN this morning. You can bet that she will make the rounds on the cable shows, Larry King notwithstanding.
http://www.paulharvey.com/email_form.shtml
Polite but firm e-mail sent.
Pres. Bush quit drinking in 1986. No way would he do cocaine.
President Bush 41 is going to be on Hannity and Colmes tonight. I wonder if they will bring up Slimey Kitty Kelly's lying book.
According to Bush's former sister-in-law, Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David while his father was President (1988-92). W claims to have been substance free for more than 25 years. These are serious allegations.
""Polite but firm e-mail sent.""
Thank you. I'm sure Paul Harvey will take these e-mail complaints seriously.
http://www.paulharvey.com/email_form.shtml
You are so right. We can never underestimate what the media will accomplish with these charges.
Serious alegations? They were serious for Clinton since it was apparent he was continuing his drug use while in office as GOV. of Arkansas. Furthermore we have never seen a road to damascas experience in Clintons life.
If you are thinking of legality. THe statue of limitations has expired. If you are saying something about his charicter then if confronted directly I bet he would admit it, and also share with you what a waste his life was before God intersected with it.
Please be specific what you mean about these being serious alegations.
It won't matter what Ms. Kelly writes in her "book".
After months and months of nearly unrelenting attacks against President Bush, he's still hanging in there...and now leading nicely!
To quote everyone's favorite tower of jello: "Bring it on!"
Since Paul Harvey is now pushing 3000 years old and is wheeled in front of the microphone everyday I doubt complaining will go very far.
Sorry, won't take that bet!
As far as I can tell, Paul harvey is in full control of his faculties, and I don't think he's a liberal.
I would think it would be fairly obvious. You have a former sister-in-law claiming that GWB snorted cocaine at Camp David between 1989-1992. This is far more serious than the 1976 DWI.
This is not a legal matter, but rather, a political attack. You can bet the MSM will leap on this one with plenty of encouragement from the Kerry camp. Regardless of whether it is true or not, it will be a major event. Count on it.
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"These are serious allegations."
Serious enough that it might be worth suing for defamation of character? The definition is "an intentional false communication that injures another person’s good name or reputation. ... ", and boy does that sound like what's happened here. Just wonder if this is something worth going after or just letting it pass as with all the other lies that have been told.
Then perhaps Newsweek can explain why they've mentioned absolutely nothing about Kerry's trip to Paris in which he visited the North Vietnamese delegation prior to the so-called peace talks. There are plenty of sources for that. I want to know what was discussed because methinks the subject had to do with the North Vietnamese stalling over inane items like table shape and size because Kerry told them if they held off long enough, his actions in the U.S. would help cause a pullout of American troops.
There is a reason why the MSM won't touch this and I think we all know what that reason is...
"-Regardless of whether it is true or not, it will be a major event. Count on it.-"
Sounds like a statement straight from the MSM. And for them, it doesn't have to be true if it's about President Bush.
"-Regardless of whether it is true or not, it will be a major event. Count on it.-"
Sounds like a statement straight from the MSM. And for them, it doesn't have to be true if it's about President Bush.
I doubt GWB wants to go that route. It would give even greater attention to it and there would be a she said, he said defense. As a public figure, GWB is fair game. GWB should just say that these allegations are totally false and have been tried again and again by his opponents, who are trying to smear him. Kitty Kelly has done similar things to Reagan and the Briitsh Royal family.
We can never underestimate what the media will accomplish with these charges-Dr Scarpetta
That IS the point! I'm no fan of either Kelly OR Paul Harvey/Gil Gross, but Kelly has never sucessfully been sued for slander, and Paul Harvey is heard by MILLIONS.
The media circus will EAT THIS UP, and we ought to be prepared for it right NOW!
Worrisome at a minimum!
"I can't stand the way he mixes advertisements in with the drivel he calls the news. It reminds me of an infomercial."
Paul Harvey is mostly advertisement and attempts at cuteness. I really don't have time for that.
His "Rest of the story" stuff is okay. But his regular program is too full of ads mixed in with the news.
Is Gil Gross a Homosexual?
It's Kitty Kelly who is a skank herself, but peoples minds are made up.
I guess that he did not continue with Paul Harvey's usual "the rest of the story".
We need to remind everyone we talk to about Kitty Kelley's scurrilous attack on the Reagans. The Reagans are revered throughout America today. This attempt to likewise smear the Bush family will backfire.
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