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#11
10-31-2007, 11:41 PM
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Re: Political candidate scandal being covered up?
FWIW, take this was a grain of salt because it was told to me as pure baseless speculation and innuendo in the first place:
I have a buddy who's a Congressional staffer, and he actually believes the rumor is about former President Clinton and some affair(s) with some other woman (or women). The "ethical" question the LA times is grappling with is centered around the fact that Bill isn't running this time around, isn't "relevant" to the campaign in the eyes of the Times, etc. Again, this is purely conjecture and likely fifth-level rumor mongering. Related to that: for something Rosenbaum claims "everyone in Washington" knows, it sure isn't "universally" known to the point where lots of people who work on the Hill know much more than speculation and innuendo. So if this rumor really is known by "elites", it's a rather small cadre of elites who are 'in the know', as everyone my buddy knows on the Hill is pretty much engaged in the same kind of rumor peddling as the blogs are. He's heard everything from the "Hillary Clinton had an affair with her female travel aide" to "Hillary Clinton had an affair with her male aide" to "Fred Thompson with some billionaire's wife" to "Bill Clinton with some billionaire's wife", etc. tl;dr summary: no one knows anything in the lower-rungs of the Beltway rumor mill. 
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#13
10-31-2007, 11:46 PM
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Re: Political candidate scandal being covered up?
I remember hearing about things like this years ago during the Gary Hart incident where the press gets a lot of these, but generally won't run them unless the suspect in question is a frontrunner.
Hence, I doubt it's any of the current names nor do I believe it's because of political party considerations - all these guys care about is the papers they'll sell - whether it's a Democrat/Republican is irrelevant to them - but if he's not running up near the top of the pack - they may just sit on it - rb
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#14
11-01-2007, 12:13 AM
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Re: Political candidate scandal being covered up?
If it's a republican and they revealed it now, that republican would probably be screwed and someone else would go on to take on the Demos. It makes a lot of sense to wait, hope they get the nomination and then slam them with it in the actual election.
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11-01-2007, 12:43 AM
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The only person they would agonize over exposing is Obama. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, it's gotta be Obama. I had been wondering why he hadn't been getting much media coverage relative to the ridiculous amounts of money he's been raising. It also would explain MSM insisting that Hillary is going to win the nomination. They would rather let him fade away quietly than expose him.
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#16
11-01-2007, 12:46 AM
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Re: Political candidate scandal being covered up?
The LA Times released all those allegations of sexual harrasment on Shwarzennegger days before the election. If that was ok, I am surprised at their ethical dilemma now.
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#17
11-01-2007, 12:50 AM
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The LA Times released all those allegations of sexual harrasment on Shwarzennegger days before the election. If that was ok, I am surprised at their ethical dilemma now. [/ QUOTE ] Well there's your problem!
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11-01-2007, 12:51 AM
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The LA Times released all those allegations of sexual harrasment on Shwarzennegger days before the election. If that was ok, I am surprised at their ethical dilemma now. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, but that wasn't a gay thing, nor was it a racial thing, which is one potential with this supposed story.
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11-01-2007, 01:00 AM
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Re: Political candidate scandal being covered up?
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] The LA Times released all those allegations of sexual harrasment on Shwarzennegger days before the election. If that was ok, I am surprised at their ethical dilemma now. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, but that wasn't a gay thing, nor was it a racial thing, which is one potential with this supposed story. [/ QUOTE ] I got it! Hillary loves the black c*ck!
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11-01-2007, 01:08 AM
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Re: Political candidate scandal being covered up?
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The LA Times released all those allegations of sexual harrasment on Shwarzennegger days before the election. If that was ok, I am surprised at their ethical dilemma now. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, but that wasn't a gay thing, nor was it a racial thing, which is one potential with this supposed story. [/ QUOTE ] I got it! Hillary loves the black c*ck! [/ QUOTE ] Hillary and Obama? Oh that would be sweet.
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