NYPost tries to imply Kerry "1972 Watergate" - ignores Globe report

[papau]

We do like right wing spin - today's "Page 6"(meaning gossip) tries to dirty up Kerry with the story below (facts from Boston Globe are below the Post story)

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm
KERRY CLAN'S OWN WATERGATE

DEMOCRATIC presidential front-runner John Kerry and Richard M. Nixon have something in common - Sen. Kerry's political history is scarred by its own version of Watergate. During Kerry's 1972 bid for Congress, his younger brother, Cameron Kerry, was arrested for "breaking into . . . the headquarters of a Kerry opponent," the New York Times reported on Sept. 19 of that year. Kerry's headquarters were in the same building in Lowell, Mass.Cameron Kerry and another campaign worker pleaded not guilty to charges of "breaking and entering with the intent to commit grand larceny." John Kerry characterized the break-in as a preemptive strike and told the Times the two men "entered the building after receiving an anonymous telephone threat . . . that the telephone lines at his headquarters were to be sabotaged."


AND NOW THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061803.shtml

…the election eve arrest of his brother, Cameron, and campaign field director Thomas J. Vallely, both then 22, in the basement of a Lowell building that housed the headquarters of Kerry and another Democratic contender, state Representative Anthony R. DiFruscia of Lawrence. It was almost 2 a.m. - 30 hours before the polls opened - when the two were arrested on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny….the Kerry camp declared it a setup, saying that the two responded to an anonymous phone call, minutes earlier, threatening to cut the campaign's 36 phone lines on the day before its get-out-the-vote effort. Lowell Police arrested the pair in an area near the trunk line for all of the building's phones…to this day Kerry becomes animated talking about the episode, convinced it was part of a conspiracy against his insurgency. He said he does not know who was involved. He dismissed as ridiculous the charge that DiFruscia was a target. "He didn't figure in the race," said Kerry....(the charges) were dropped a year later.
<snip>Vallely, a former Marine who served in Vietnam and later became a state representative in Boston, had more to say…"I kicked in the door," he said, and then, police swarmed the area. Vallely said DiFruscia's office was of no interest; the Kerry phone lines were. In hindsight, he said, "We probably were overreacting to someone who was joking."
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As the Globe notes: the day before election headline was in the Sun, the conservative daily in Lowell, which questioned his patriotism, his loyalty to the district, and his financial backers. I do not see much change from the GOP of Watergate 1972 to the Bush liars and their media support in 04.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Is this the same Globe that I saw in the super market yesterday reporting

that Clinton tells all including his favorite Lesbian fantasy and it includes you know who?

That was the cover. It seems like a magazine for nutters.

[papau]

2. Nope - It was the Boston Globe - part of the NYT Empire -paper of record

Indeed - the Globe (Boston Globe) in between football Patriots and Mass Gay marriage coverage, ran a many, many multi-part series on everything Kerry has ever done, spun as nasty as a paper of record could spin.

Which is why seeing the same stuff in the NYPost re-spun and then on the AP WIRE re-spun - re-spun to make Kerry look worse! - is such a dead giveaway of EXCESS bias!

:-)