You cite long quotes from the Miami Herald, which has large inaccuracies in it. If you ever visited a D.C. townhouse you would understand the large hole in the Herald's surveillance: normal entrance or exit is through the garage in the back. They never saw Rice enter the property, so they never saw how she left the property: in a car through the garage. What they saw was Rice walk out the front door and then walk back in the house after viewing the front lawn. Their reporting was very slanted, deceitful and sloppy at best, and very possibly willful and malicious.
The Herald offers the following exchange:
"He implored Hart to offer evidence that would clarify the situation. He said, “You, of all people, know the sensitivity of this.” And he told Hart that The Herald intended to publish an account of what the reporters had witnessed and what Hart had confirmed. Please be forthcoming, Fiedler said.
“I've been very forthcoming, ” Hart said.
What is your relationship with the blond woman?
“I have no personal relationship with the individual you are following, ” Hart said.
Are you denying that you met her on the yacht? McGee asked.
“I’m not denying anything, ” Hart said heatedly.
http://www.unc.edu/~pmeyer/Hart/hartarticle.htmlRice, in one of only two interviews she has ever given on the subject, stated that the purpose of her visit to D.C. was to end her brief relationship with Hart:
"I agreed to see him one last time—to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/1996/sepoct/6w5042.html?start=3Hart used the present perfect: '“I have no personal relationship with the individual you are following, ” Hart said.' Rice had ended the relationship, so Hart's statement was true. He never said he "never had" a personal relationship with Rice, and Rice denied the brief relationship was sexual. Rice's professional career was ruined by the media attention. Her former boyfriend Don Henley of the Eagles wrote the song
Dirty Laundry for her about the incident.
The Washington Post story you cite is simply an edited reiteration of the Herald's story. As such, it is a merely a second hand source to the original story and of little historical value. It is worth noting that it was not the Herald's story which forced Hart to withdrawal from the campaign in May of '87. The Herald's story was not accurate. While Hart was dealing with trash from the Herald he got low bridged by the Washington Post. Paul Taylor of the Washington Post threatened to "out" another woman he believed had had an affair with Hart, NOT that the woman had admitted to anything. Hart withdrew to protect her reputation, which is hardly the behavior of a "womanizer". (Taylor regretted what he had done and resigned from the Post over how the matter was handled.) Hart reentered the race after the Post agreed to kill the story.
Oh, yes I was wrong. It wasn't 60% in the Gallup poll who thought the media was unfair to Hart. It was 64%.
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