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Saturday, February 14, 2004

New York Times Reports On Presidential Hemorrhoid

By Rob on February 14, 2004 at 01:02 pm
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To anybody who feels that an investigation into John Kerry's relationship with his female interns may be too intrusive into his personal life, I give you this excerpt from an article in the New York Times, found via Tim Blair:

Then there is his medical history, set out in more detail than many Americans might want to know. He had his tonsils removed as a young boy, had appendicitis when he was 10 and at 14 had an operation to remove a cyst from his chest, leaving a scar. At the time he applied for entrance into the guard, he had a hemorrhoid, the location of which was charted with military precision.


Honestly, I'd just as soon the media stay off the Kerry story until something has been confirmed. But what I don't like to see is the media talk about getting "too personal" in regards to reporting about Kerry only to turn around and report on a hemorrhoid the President had removed decades ago.

If the media senationalized every little hint of a story that came their way, I wouldn't be happy but at least their coverage would be fair. Its this "selective sensationalizing" that gets to me. Either they report the nitty-gritty details of each and every story that comes along or they don't.

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[...] So what’s going to happen is this: Bush is going to let the calls for the records build to a fevered pitch.  Congressional Republicans are going to ask Bush to release them so that they look like good guys interested in transparency and “getting to the bottom of things.”  Then, in the next week or so, Bush will release the records.  Everybody will see there’s nothing all that important in them and the whole thing will go away with those in the media and on the left who cried the loudest for the release of the records looking a little foolish. Of course, this is all just speculation on my part, but if you think back it is exactly what happened with Bush’s military medical records.  The media kept pushing and demanding to see the records and Bush kept resisting.  Finally, when the demands had reached their peak, Bush released them and the media was stuck having to report to the public that the most important thing in these all-important records they’d demanded was some details about the removal of a hemorrhoid from Bush’s bottom. [...]

Say Anything - North Dakota’s Most Popular P on January 29, 2006 at 05:01 pm
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