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morningglory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:08 AM
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Has anyone pointed this out about Kerik? He spent his last year
as Chief of Police writing a book then went on book tour wearing his police uniform, pushing the book. Also, he sent NYC policement to another state to investigate his mother's death for the book and got fined for that.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:09 AM
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1. bush chooses people who abuse the system
Edited on Sun Dec-05-04 12:10 AM by Straight Shooter
bush chooses, America loses

edit: oops
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:29 AM
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2. He was also involved in some kind of cigarette scandel
He sold cigarettes to NY inmates at inflated prices and used the profits to give to some obscure foundation that he was involved in.
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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:46 AM
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3. That's one of MANY problems with Kerik
So he should fit right in with Bush gang
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:59 AM
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4. Liberty?
With this guy and Gonsalves (sp) AG in power kiss Civil Liberties goodbye.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 01:08 AM
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5. by any standard, the man is completely unqualified . . .
Edited on Sun Dec-05-04 01:09 AM by OneBlueSky
for this position . . . Democrats and thinking Republicans (there must be a few) should not confirm him . . .
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PsychoDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 02:09 AM
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6. True...
But the position, like the office and department is a sham. An organ of Big Government ment to invade the privacy of the American people.

They know this...
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:25 PM
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22. Oh please, do you really think * would put someone on that would
actually do something? Can't have anyone around him that is least bit smarter than rove...
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tritsofme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 02:11 AM
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7. 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11
Edited on Sun Dec-05-04 02:11 AM by tritsofme
He was there when it happened.

That makes him qualified to do anything.

Didn't you get the memo?
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:47 AM
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8. *Writing* a Book? Or "Working Out" with His Publisher Judith REGAN?
Edited on Sun Dec-05-04 10:13 AM by UTUSN
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2784984

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nyhen034063947dec03,0,6867642.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

Why did Kerik send a New York City homicide detective to rouse TV hair and makeup artists in the middle of the night when his book publisher (and workout-partner) lost her cell phone?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Judith REGAN, the one behind wingnut Regan Books, used to do an interview show on Faux. He was one of her authors. She was drooling throughout, partly with her desire to mother him in his search for his mother, and partly with lust as she asked him where he was when the 9-11 news broke. He said he was in the shower in his office. Pause. After working out. She was drooling at the image in her mind.

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006000901 ...

The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice
by Bernard B. Kerik,

As a young man, he is often in trouble and even quits school. He gains a sense of purpose in the military and embarks on a career in law enforcement that culminates in his becoming commissioner. There's a secondary story line in this book: his desire to understand why his mother abandoned him and what led to her death.

http://www.mhmraofharriscounty.org/Interface%20WWW/DecJ ...

In her 34 years of life, his mother was divorced four times, arrested and charged with prostitution, and, following “stretches of sobriety” was ordered by the courts to spend 12 weeks in a hospital or institution for the treatment of alcoholism.

When Kerik was 4, the police placed him in protective custody and foster care for six weeks. Kerik’s father petitioned the courts to obtain custody, and his mother didn’t show up for the hearing, “because she was wanted on a warrant for escaping from the hospital where she was sentenced to tackle her alcoholism.”

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/error.htm

.... Then Judith and Rupert found each other -- and ReganBooks was born. Not only did their commercial instincts mesh, but Judy's what's-the-world-ever-done-for-me politics were highly compatible with the Murdoch view.

And then the sex part. It's a one-woman show.

I have never heard anyone talk about sex the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone talk about their sexual partners the way Judy does. I have near heard anyone analyze individual motivations, the workings of the marketplace, and politics, too, in such precisely sexual terms. The other day, on her show, she kept interrupting her tempered guests on the subject of why women like Bill Clinton, and, voice rising, saying: "They want to have sex with him -- that's why they like him!"

Early in her career at Simon & Schuster, she published a book called The Rogue Warrior and fought tooth and nail for a full-face cover photo of the author. "Don't they understand?" she stormed to me. "Women will buy this because they want to fuck him!" She got the full face and a best-seller.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0880010.html

Born: 1953
Birthplace: Massachusetts?

Growing up on Long Island, Regan earned a BA in English from Vassar College. In the late 1970s, she studied voice and worked as a secretary before becoming a reporter for the National Enquirer. In 1987 Regan proposed a book on American families and their role models to Simon & Schuster. The editors were impressed, and she joined Simon & Schuster, developing a string of best-selling celebrity “tell-all” books, including those by talk show host Rush Limbaugh and radio personality Howard Stern. Her aggressive, sales-oriented approach was highly successful, but critics charged she was undermining publishing by manufacturing personality-driven books. In 1994 Rupert Murdoch gave Regan her own imprint at HarperCollins, ReganBooks, and a TV show on Fox News. A Manhattan resident, Regan is divorced and has two children.

http://www.amiannoying.com/2002/view.aspx?ID=4537

Published Howard Stern's 'Private Parts' and 'Miss America,' 'Monica Lewinsky's Untold Story: An Amorality Tale,' 'Quivers a Life' and Rush Limbaugh's 'See I Told You So' and 'The Way it Ought to Be'
Hosts Fox News interview show

Why she might be annoying:
Her son was born out of wedlock and she never married the father.
She divorced Robert Kleinschmidt, the father of her daughter, in a very angry divorce. The divorce battle went for over five years and went through dozens of lawyers and many judges, costing more than a million dollars.
When she published rival Rush Limbaugh's book, Howard Stern called her 'Judas Limbaugh.'
She wrote for the National Enquirer for three years.

Why she might not be annoying:
She looks like Isabella Rossellini.
She graduated Vassar College on a scholarship.
She has edited books from the left and right political viewpoint with out censoring ideas.
She ranked #94 in Entertainment Week Power List of 1993.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/newlow.htm

Regan looked straight into the camera and for almost 10 minutes, delivered a pseudo stream-of-consciousness poetry riff mocking Clinton. Referring to his sad boyhood, she mocked his loneliness, then proclaimed that he built himself up and called himself KING, because "I am rich and I can do what I want!" She likened him to the cast out Socks, and envisioned him an old man meeting up with Socks at 125th street, both holding tin cups. ....

It was incredibly vicious. What was especially appalling was how she took the most painful aspects of Bill's background--his truly grievous childhood--and twisted them, using them to mock him. If this wasn't the "politics of personal destruction" I don't know how else you could describe this horrific display. ....

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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:27 PM
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14. Fixed Link for Great Profile of REGAN by WOLFF
Edited on Sun Dec-05-04 12:44 PM by UTUSN
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/152/

And here are the turn-ons for Ms REGAN: The first is "The Rogue Warrior" mentioned in the article, Richard MARCINKO, and the other is of course the showering work-out partner:
http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=360302



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2779762


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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:36 PM
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15. Thanks for linking to my piece on Regan and Clinton...
Edited on Sun Dec-05-04 12:40 PM by Gloria
I was going to add it to the thread...

That horrible, vicious rant by Regan is what got my "career" started...I was so totally PISSED OFF and appalled that after emailing her, I sat down and wrote up what she had said....from then on it was the Media Watch etc......
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:42 PM
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17. Yours Was Great - and in the Context of KERIK
it shows REGAN's hypocrisy--hailing KERIK's background while bashing CLINTON's. Thanks to YOU for all the tireless monitoring and writing you do.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:58 AM
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9. Giuliani and all his thugs have made mega millions off 9-11
Seems like everyone in the Giuliani administration has gone on to make millions off tragedy. Bush rewards millionaires whether they deserve it or not. Kerik comes off as a nutcase, not an administrator.
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sleepyhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 11:14 AM
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11. Isn't Kerik involved somehow
in Giuliani's security consulting firm? How nice for these two friends that they will now be able to share even more wealth.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:13 PM
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13. yes! like Rudy (and bushco)
he is a 9/11 PROFITEER. period. end of discussion.

does witnessing a traffic accident qualify you for responsibility for transit safety?

does witnessing a plane crash qualify you for FAA chief?

Kerik was in NYC on 9/11. so was I. he knows NOTHING about preventing attacks... and now that he's a bushie, he won't even have to go to funerals (which was his major "response" to 9/11)
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Harlan James Donating Member (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:06 AM
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10. I Think Bush's Handlers Tapped Kerik...
...because he's outspoken and colorful. Image over substance has always been the Bush style, and this knucklehead certainly fits that bill.

And won't he just be wonderful on the talk shows?

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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:07 PM
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12. He Looks Like Mr. Potato Head
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laheina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:30 PM
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23. He sorta looks like
a nazi storm trooper.
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 12:36 PM
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16. Well, he certainly can't be worse than Ridge was...
Coming up with those stupid color-coding systems was the most ridiculous system ever devised.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 02:12 PM
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18. Collecting All the Scum into One Thread n/t
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:02 PM
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20. Ridge was not nearly as big a show boater... imagine Ridge's "duct tape
press conference"... or its hysterical equivalent... being held once every two weeks....
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laheina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:33 PM
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24. That's just the repuke imitation
of the gay pride flag. You know that they can't think of anything on their own.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:56 PM
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19. Well, This Deserves a Kick n/t
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sangh0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:04 PM
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21. That's nothing
For the last year, he's also been a partner in a firm that helps corporations get contracts with his soon-to-be employer, the Federal govt
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:39 PM
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25. Kick for Research n/t
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 11:00 PM
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26. Sgt. Slaughter does what he's told...
and he likes it! Liberties? We'll define what liberty means.
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