If CNN is really gonna beat out Fox “Psychic News” Network in the Chandra wars, they’ve got to get themselves a new anchor. Is Dionne Warwick available?
THE CONDIT LIES MOUNT, CTD: The Washington Post admits today that its recent story of an affair between Gary Condit and the daughter of a minister was concocted out of thin air. Forget for a minute about a major newspaper simply running a bald-faced untruth about a congressman. What about the privacy of the minister’s daughter? A completely private person was dragged into public scrutiny, traumatized, disbelieved, and probably irrevocably harmed. Much of the blame lies with her father, of course, and the many people who still believed the story was true even after the father’s recantation. But the media fomented the atmosphere that led O.C. Thomas to turn a white lie into a fiasco. Interestingly, the Levy family insists that the story is true. The Post says the young woman is “now in hiding.” With the media the way it now is, we all should be.
UH OH: D.C. Deputy Police Chief Terrance Gainer says “Well, you have to understand that we’ve gathered a lot of information in this – a lot of electronic information, telephone records, banking records – and nothing has led us to Chandra Levy … And I really think it’s important to point out that the congressman, although interesting to a lot of people, is not the central figure in this, nor is his wife.” With the D.C. cops ruling Condit out, why do I think it’s now almost a metaphysical truth that the congressman had something to do with it?
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