Alex Polier - no news is good news
I continue to be more and more amazed that the US media is ignoring the story on Kerry, while the rest of the world continues to talk about it. The lower part of this piece displays the coverage around the world (full sumary from The Times), and its a geographically skewed story to say the least, considering this is a US story, not a European, Australian story.
The only place its showing up in the US is in blogs, and even Deans blog is covering it, yet Dean doesn't mention it in the debates.
There must be something about this ... perhaps the Democrats don't want another Monica, particularly just when they have found someone who looks like he could give Bush a run for his money in November.
Alex Polier Links
About Alex Polier
Alex Polier the daughter of Donna and Terry Polier of of Malvern, Pennsylvania is 27 years old. Alex is a graduate from Columbia University in New York. She was a Associated Press correspondent.
News Articles about Alex Polier
MichNews 2/16/04 Questions and Answers
BBC 2/16/04 US campaign begins to get dirty
East African Standard 2/17/04 Kerry lover holed up in city house
Telegraph 2/16/04 Intern denies affair with Kerry
World Net Daily 2/16/04 Woman denies affair with Kerry
Men's News Daily 2/16/04 John Kerry's Alleged Paramour Issues Denial
Guardian 2/16/04 Statement From Woman About Sen. Kerry
Ananova 2/16/04 Woman denies having affair with Kerry
Guardian 2/16/04 Woman Denies Rumors of Kerry Affair
The Scotsman 2/16/04 Kerry Shrugs off Intern Claims
Men’s News Daily 2/16/04 Kerry's Alleged Intern Identified, Taped Interview with Major TV Network
News Journal 2/16/04 Internet can lift campaign, send rumors flying
Mirror.co.uk 2/16/04 Affairs Of States
Femail.co.uk 2/16/04 Kerry: intern's TV confession
Opinion Editorial 2/16/04 Questions and answers
This is London 2/16/04 'Kerry scandal woman reveals all to TV station'
Femail.co.uk 2/16/04 Kerry: intern's TV confession
Columbia Spectator 2/16/04 Journalism Students Rule Out Rumors
Washington Times 2/16/04 U.S. Newspapers tread lightly in rumor on Kerry infidelity
Axis of Logic 2/16/04 Drudging it up again: did Kerry really have an affair with an intern?
The Sun 2/16/04 John Kerry girl tells all
The Scotsman 2/16/04 Kerry marches on as scandal rumours fail to ignite
Daily Nation 2/16/04 Kerry intern hiding in Kenya
National Business Review 2/16/04 Senator Kerry's "intern" -- all smoke, no fire
The Australian 2/16/04 No time for affair with Kerry
Broken Newz 2/16/04 Bush Says He Won’t Comment on Kerry’s Godless Fornicating Ways
Worldnet Daily 2/15/04 Kerry's intern tells all to TV network
Guardian 2/15/04 Now Kerry must face up to those tough questions
Charlotte Observer 2/15/04 Political campaigns confront the new reality of the Internet
Chicago Sun-Times 2/15/04 The Kerry case ...
Telegraph 2/15/04 'This won't go away. What happened is much nastier than is being reported'
Herald Sun 2/15/04 Sleazeball hit on my daughter
SMH 2/15/04 Frontrunner Kerry denies intern affair
Telegraph 2/15/04 This time it's personal
Sunday Mail 2/15/04 Affair claim a lie says angry Kerry
Sunday Herald 2/15/04 America gets a taste for mud
Telegraph 2/15/04 So it has come to this - a choice of scandals
Halifax Herald 2/15/04 Sen. Kerry sex gossip a case of friendly fire
February 17, 2004
Woman in Kerry 'sex scandal' breaks silence to deny affair
By Tim Reid
THE woman at the centre of an alleged sex scandal involving John Kerry, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, emerged from hiding yesterday to deny that she had ever had an affair with the Massachusetts senator.
Breaking her silence four days after the allegations emerged on a right-wing internet site, Alex Polier issued a statement from Kenya, where she is staying with her fiancé. “I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry and the rumours in the press are totally false,” she said.
“Whoever is spreading these rumours and allegations does not know me, but should know the pain they have caused me and my family.”
Mr Kerry denied the rumours last Friday. “It’s rumour. It’s untrue. Period,” he said.
Reports of an alleged extra-marital affair concerning Mr Kerry, whose wife, Teresa, is heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune, first appeared last Thursday on the Drudge Report, an online gossip and news site.
Run by Matt Drudge, a self-confessed conservative Republican, the website shot to prominence by breaking the news of President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Although key parts of the Kerry story were quickly denied, it prompted fevered speculation in Washington and raised concerns that this presidential election would be one of the dirtiest.
Miss Polier, 27, a freelance journalist, is engaged to Yaron Schwartzman. They met at Columbia University’s journalism school. She decided to speak after journalists arrived outside the Nairobi home of her fiancé’s parents, where she is staying.
“Because these stories were false, I assumed the media would ignore them. It seems these efforts to peddle these lies continue, so I feel compelled to address them,” she said.
Miss Polier’s parents, Terry and Donna, said from their home in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that the rumours were “completely false and unsubstantiated”. They added that they appreciated the way Mr Kerry had handled the situation and would vote for him.
Two pledged votes in a key swing state will not be the only source of comfort for Mr Kerry. Although the mainstream US media had addressed the rumours gingerly, if at all, the mere suggestion of scandal was causing unease among Democrats.
After a week in which mudslinging from both parties has begun in earnest, from Democratic accusations about Mr Bush’s Vietnam-era National Guard service to White House allegations about Mr Kerry’s fundraising, the country is preparing for a brutal campaign.
There is no suggestion that the White House had anything to do with the rumours concerning Miss Polier. But anticipating the onslaught by the Bush campaign, Mr Kerry said at a debate on Sunday night: “I am prepared to stand up to any attack they come at me with.”
FAMILY STATEMENTS
A statement released yesterday by Alexandra Polier, who has been the subject of rumours linking her to Senator John Kerry:
“For the last several days I have seen internet and tabloid rumors relating to me and Senator John Kerry.
Because these stories were false, I assumed the media would ignore them. It seems that efforts to peddle these lies continue, so I feel compelled to address them.
I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry and the rumours in the press are completely false. Whoever is spreading these rumours and allegations does not know me, but should know the pain they have caused me and my family. I am in Kenya with my fiancé visiting his family, and we ask that the press respect our privacy and leave all of us alone.”
A statement by Terry and Donna Polier, the parents of Alexandra Polier:
“We have spoken to our daughter and the allegations that have been made regarding her are completely false and unsubstantiated. We love and support her 100 per cent and these unfounded rumours are hurtful to our entire family. We appreciate the way Senator Kerry has handled the situation and intend on voting for him for President of the United States.”
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