The Education of Alexandra Polier (accused of Kerry affair)

The more people I talked to, the more one supposed source kept coming up, a woman whom Drudge had called my “close friend.” I won’t mention her name here, but she had worked for a Republican lobbyist—Bill Jarrell, who runs a firm called Washington Strategies, gives money to Bush, and had been a top aide to Tom DeLay. I called her immediately to ask her if she had been telling people I’d had an affair with Kerry. “I may have said you knew him,” she said, sounding as if she were choosing her words with great care. “I may have said you had dinner with him. But I never said you had an affair!”

Then another reporter also said she’d told him I had slept with Kerry. I couldn’t believe one of my closest friends would tell such a thing—we went all the way back to tenth grade. I had even asked her to be a bridesmaid. She denied it again, then softened her position. “I may have told Bill that you knew Kerry. Look, I was once with you when you phoned Kerry’s office and then he called you right back. And I thought, How amazing, and I got excited and I told friends about it.” She started to cry. “I’m very, very sorry,” she sobbed. “If all this leads back to me, it wasn’t intentional.”

http://www.metronewyork.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/9221/index.html

"It wasn't intentional". This is why I have no business or personal dealings with repubs. They are absolutely amoral.

Doesn't even own up to what she said; then she considers herself the victim. :eyes:

These people are no more than the slime they spew....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

to hear the CONTRIVED story.

I think we know it's not going to be carried anywhere, and no one's going to correct the error. It's not the right-wing's style.

As we know, they simply avoid admitting the wildly vulgar among them, and scream themselves hoarse passing around gossip about Democrats.

Say, what about that Gary Condit story?

lots of threads in the old 2004 Primary forum, based on nothing but that Drudge story. Multiple posts every time any RW rag picked up the Drudge story. Polls, etc.

about Kerry...calling him a sleazeball or something?

Never make friends with a Republican, they will stab you in the back at the earliest opportunity?

some of that scratch.

Proof, as if any was needed, that republicans are hypocritical, lying, amoral PIGS (and that's an insult to the mighty swine.)


How is it possible that Americans think of the Repiglicans as the "moral" party?

I like this woman~

The article is a must-read!

for having suspicions about Polier. I think she is now revealed as an innocent, a trifle too naive for the rough and tumble. Any slant in her AP articles then I presume is another case of editorial control leading her down quite another garden path.

One would hope essayists or reporters with such extensive readership would be a little more savvy even if young, but this itself says volumes about the problems we are having with the present media being gatekeepers of the perceived and interpreted truth.


Eventually all of them, the well-intentioned and the stooges will be mangled in their own machinery. Many if not most are just not good enough to cope with systemic dysfunctions in their business and like the rest of us have to learn the hard way- when it is no longer news.

As with the President Clinton fiasco, it's between he and his wife. Puritanical bullshit. This country is so damned uptight.

I lost even more respect for the media. Absolute slime.

I disagree with a few of you that she was naive. I don't think she was, at all. This could have happened to any attractive woman in politics.

"And so my education had taken me pretty much as far as it could. I started out as an ambitious young woman inspired by politics and the media. I’ve ended up disenchanted with both. If I had been an ambitious young man, this story would not have happened. I’m never going to know exactly what happened, but that matters less to me now. I lost a good friend and learned a few lessons. I am struck by the pitiful state of political reporting, which is dominated by the unholy alliance of opposition research and its latest tool, the Internet. Even the Wall Street Journal’s Website ran Drudge’s story, with only a brief disclaimer that his stories weren’t always accurate."

"bushsucksdick" - haha, not that there's anything wrong with that. But she sounds celebrity-struck, very ambitious, unabashed by her own appearance, not that there's anything wrong with these things. And she doesn't mean to dredge it all up, but here it is again. JK handled it with class, respecting her silence at the cost of days of raging press for him.

that the ony thing we'll hear about this story from right-wing, corporate-controlled media outlets is not how wrong they are, or how gutless they are when confronted, or how easily manipulated they are, but that Kerry was "flirtatious" at dinner?

what was the name if the woman that hit the camera away

and I wondered the same thing, too.

Sad... they went back to the 10th grade. Doesn't stop this moronic woman from turning around and stabbing her 'friend' in the back by spreading gossip about crap that SOUNDS like it MIGHT be involving something that COULD be salacious but that she doesn't even know anything about?

So how did she end up talking about it to reporters? Did Drudge call her? Did she call someone else? This just makes me want to know more, actually.

I'd be very disappointed if Clark had any hand in this, considering I was a Clarkie.