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United States News Title: Gore story goes mainstream (Crazed Sex Poodle Alert!) Gore story goes mainstream By KEACH HAGEY | 7/2/10 12:48 PM EDT Text Size-+reset. The Gore story is following the well-worn path of other sex scandals into the tabloids. With the Portland police department’s announcement that it will re-open its investigation into a masseuse’s allegations against Al Gore, the Gore story has followed the well-worn path of other sex scandals, from National Enquirer exclusive to running story for a somewhat ambivalent mainstream media. The Enquirer’s scoops on John Edwards’s affair with Rielle Hunter led to much hand-wringing in media criticism circles, including at POLITICO over whether the press really vets presidential candidates, especially after it was revealed later, in “Game Change” by John Heilmann and Mark Halperin, that the affair was well known to Edwards’ staffers, who considered leaking to the mainstream media but in the end did not. Now the networks and papers such as The Washington Post and New York Times are faced with a similar situation. A spokesman for Gore has categorically denied all the allegations, but the Enquirer’s two stories on the masseuse’s claims have now entered the media bloodstream. The second story, published late Tuesday, featured a photograph of Molly Hagerty, the alleged object of Gore’s advances, holding up a pair of allegedly incriminating pants. After the Enquirer first reported on Hagerty’s allegations on June 23, the first question mainstream media reporters such as the Post’s Howard Kurtz focused on was: Did the Enquirer pay for it? (Enquirer Executive Editor Barry Levine told Kurtz that “no money changed hands,” but the Post later reported that the Enquirer did pay for the story.) To be fair, Howard Kurtz was asking a legitimate question, since the accuser had claimed to be selling her story for $1 million. But the fact that the paper’s first reporting on the matter focused on the messenger, not the message, was revealing. That began to change on Wednesday. The New York Times ran the Associated Press story of the Portland police department’s decision to re-open the case, and by Thursday had assigned a reporter, Jesse McKinley, to the story. The Post had four reporters, including Kurtz, contributing to its report of the news in Friday’s paper. Their story brought one interesting new fact to light: Hagerty has a history of making accusations of unwanted sexual advances. In 1998, according to court records, she sought a restraining order against an ex-boyfriend who she said had assaulted her in a park two years earlier and had since spoken to her "in a menacing tone." The request was denied. The story has also brought another familiar accusation from conservatives that the media is protective of liberal politicians such as Gore. The Portland Tribune, which was looking into the story in 2007 and 2008 but did not write anything about it, has taken some of the heat. In a piece titled “Al Gore and the Media Protection Racket,” The American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord argued that the existence of a police report involving the former vice president was news in itself, and the Tribune should have reported it as such. For the Spectator, it was déjà vu all over again – the magazine was the first publication to name Paula Jones in a 1994 story on Bill Clinton’s sex life. “And by not publishing what was a verifiable fact — which is to say news — that a police report existed placing one of the most powerful people in the American and global Establishment at the scene of a disturbing potential sexual crime, the Tribune signaled on just which side of the power equation it sees itself as sitting,” Lord wrote. “By remaining silent, it was effectively heading off an investigation into Gore's activities from any manner of other media outlets with more resources at their disposal than those available to a small Oregon paper.” Portland Tribune Executive Editor Mark Garber responded to the article Friday morning, sending along a copy of the police report and arguing that it contained “little to no factual information.” “Do you really believe it would be responsible journalistically to publish a story based on a police report that was filed months earlier by a lawyer whose client refused to talk to police or press charges?” Garber wrote. “Or, was it more responsible to actually investigate whether there was any basis for the story? After all, people make wacky accusations about public figures every day. How would we know, based on this police report that you value so greatly, whether this was or wasn't a complete hoax?” Read more: www.politico.com/news/sto.../39330.html#ixzz0sYByU91i
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#1. To: Badeye (#0)
Who gives a shit?
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
I caught this story on AP last night, if those Libtards are running with it Gore is toast. It must be hitting the papers before the info comes out in his divorce hearing. Same move the Klintoons used to pull, old news nothing to see here BS.
Yep. We both remember how the MSM tried to ignore the Paula Jones story, the Lewinsky story, and that other woman Clinton groped just before or after her husband committed suicide. Same pattern here, except the MSM couldn't ignore for as long. What I'm watching for is others coming forward. This isn't 'beginners bad luck' with Algore.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
The other woman was Kathleen Willey, Klintoon was groping her about the same time in the WH her husband committed suicide.
Thats the one. I think they killed her cat, and made some vague threats to her.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
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