Right Wing Sleaze Attack Moves from Dean to Kerry: Right Wing Echo Chamber Sexes Up Kerry, accuses by innuendo of infidelity.

Right Wing Sleaze Attack Moves from Dean to Kerry: Right Wing Echo Chamber Sexes Up Kerry, accuses by innuendo of infidelity.

Rush Limbaugh as is customary, has taken the first flash of the story that Drudge has spewed and is stoking the right wing echo chamber, as is right wing Worldnet, in an article titled : Report: Scandal rocks Kerry campaign

Following on the heels of of Limbaugh, Sean Hannity is ranting repeatedly (or is that repeatedly ranting) that this business about Kerry was started by Democrats, spurred by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Drudge reports that Wesley Clark, supposedly "off-the-record" told a group of a dozen top reporters "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." Drudge claims that "[Three reporters in attendance confirm Clark made the startling comments.]" Drudge also speculates that Dean decided to stay in the race, even if he loses Wisconsin because of this development.

The truth is, it doesn't matter if it is true or not to some people. Just the mention of these accusations will damage Kerry, just as the "scream" coverage of Dean did severe damage to Howard Dean, even though most media people snickeringly apologized a few days to a week later. The damage had been done. .

The truth is, if John Kerry did engage in an infidelity, I personally don't care very much. I feel sorry for his wife and family, and I hope they can work it out. But personal foibles like sexual infidelity are almost a normal part of the life of the kind of person who is engaged in public office. I'm not excusing it, but it's not nearly as unpleasant and indicative of bad character as other ways of screwing that George Bush and his party have engaged in-- like screwing millions of out of work Americans, screwing the environment, screwing veterans... all things that the Bush administration and his republican congress have proudly done.

If Kerry did have an infidelity, he should deal with it forthrightly and quickly. It might do him in, but better now than later. If it takes him out of the presidential race, so be it. Bill Clinton faced a similar Republican attack and not only survived it, but probably used it to bolster his strength.

Assaults on character like this are a staple of the Republican war machine. The hypocrisy about character is would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic. But bottom line, democrats and any candidates going up against republicans and right wingers must expect to face horrific, slanderous accusations and slanders.

It will be interesting to see which right wing anchors on the major media start reporting on this.

Bill Clinton, it's time for you and Hillary to give Kerry a call, if you haven't already done so. Meanwhile, if this does do Kerry in, John Edwards can expect to be the next target. Matter of fact, they may go after him anyway, just for insurance.

Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is editor/founder of OpEdNews.com, president of Futurehealth, Inc. and organizer of the Futurehealth Winter Brain, Optimal Functioning and StoryCon Meeting. This article is copyright Rob Kall and originally published by opednews.com but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog or web media so long as this credit paragraph is attached. Over 85 other articles by Rob Kall

Here's a letter for an "admirer" titled "You Are the Hypocrite" followed by my reply

Rob, you are so typical of the left’s “It’s alright if we do it, but let’s skewer the right if they do it” mentality.

You probably think the left should be spending countless hours checking to see where Bush was or wasn’t during his time in the reserves.

Your huge boatload of accusations and vitriol just won’t float in your small puddle of knowledge. If people like you were in charge in 1776, we would still be sending our tax money to Britain (while hoping the United Nations would help us).

Unlike you, I can look at Bush and be critical of the things I don’t like (acting like a Democrat in recent spending for example), while still appreciating his leadership in the war on terror. God help us if Kerry, or any Democrat, is ever in charge during these monumental and historically important times. The terrorists pray every day that a Democrat will win.

Completely biased “pretend” news people like yourself always see their own, like King Kerry, as if the emperor’s magic clothes are actually real.

Keith Decker
Grand Junction CO

Actually, the Boston Tea party was about the East India company, which was given a virtual monopoly on tea. The colonists were responding to a situation in which an out of control corporation had been handed outrageous privileges by a corrupt leader. Sorry pal. I’d have been there. Keep an eye OpEdNews, for an article soon on why right wing tax dodgers are parasites who should pay up or get out. And I find it hard to see what you could find good about Bush, an AWOL fake, coward who has used the tragedy of 911 to try to save his sorry ass.

My website makes it clear I’m biased, whereas liars on Fox and other right wing anchors pretend to be fair and balanced. Do you buy their lines?

So… what is it you like about Bush? His selling out to corporations? His rape of the environment? How about his gross distortion of facts to take the US into a war that has killed over 500 GIs, with the likelihood that many more will also die, and tends of thousands will be wounded. Associating the words Bush and Character drags the concept of character down to a new low.

Mr. Kall, do you have kids? If so, your comments today about not caring if Kerry was unfaithful to his wife, are even more shameful. America is a far better place than to have as its leader a man who is not faithful to his wife. Many men may be unfaithful, but we can and must hold our president to a higher standard. Our kids' future and our nation's integrity depend on it.

You probably feel it’s just fine that he has sent over 500 loyal, patriotic American GIs over to Iraq to die, and thousands more to be injured and maimed, using false pretenses. Shame on you. Think about all the parents, wives and children who have lost loved ones because Bush either lied outright or used bad judgment. Your priorities are pathetic. Your judgment in supporting George aWol Bush is deeply impaired. Break out of your hypnotic trance. You are supporting a traitor who is despoiling America, raping the nation. I'd rather George be cheating on his wife than cheating on America's people.

Kerry affair seems unlikely and here is why

Dear Rob,

I can't know if John Kerry had an affair, but here are some reasons why it seems unlikely to me:

1) There is a lot of chemistry between him and his wife.

2) Men who have talked about Theresa--journalists and so forth--are always very struck by her. It is my sense that they find her pretty attractive.

3) He's not stupid. Why would he do that right now?

4) When we would he have time?

5) He is so studied and methodical and doesn't seem capable of being impulsive.

Of course, men have affairs all the time (and women are apparently catching up). I hope he didn't because I liked their relationship--there was something kind of heartening about the way their chemistry.

Regardless of that, we are in for a really brutal campaign season. And if a Democrat manages to win the presidency, it will go on for his whole term or two terms just as it did for Clinton.

Sincerely,

Leslie Smith