Thursday, April 24, 2003 6:14 p.m. EDT
Press Mum on Kerry Tie to Santorum Controversy
News that Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign manager just happens to be married to the reporter whose interview of Sen. Rick Santorum created the political firestorm of the week hasn't gotten much mainstream press attention.
The word on reporter Lara Jakes Jordan, whose decision to insert the word "[gay]" into Santorum's comments made it appear that he was gay bashing, is that she recently married Kerry campaign chief Jim Jordan.
Coincidentally [of course], Sen. Kerry just happened to be among the first to slam Santorum over the remark, a comment so innocuous it likely would have gone completely unnoticed except for Jakes Jordan's creative editing.
"These comments take us backwards in America," Kerry told the New York Times on Wednesday, before turning his fire on the Bush administration.
"The White House speaks the rhetoric of compassionate conservatism but they're silent while their chief lieutenants make divisive and hurtful comments that have no place in our politics."
Another coincidence [of course] is the fact that the AP decided to sit on its creative scribe's report until the Iraq war was over.
With the media now desperately searching for a new topic, Santorum's remark became instant headlines. But had the AP covered the Pennsylvania Republican's comment on April 7, when Jakes Jordan obtained it, it would have had to compete with news that the U.S. troops had just reached Baghdad - a development so big that the Santorum "scoop" would have been instantly forgotten.
Though the Jakes Jordan-Kerry connection is easily the most intriguing aspect of the entire story, to date only UPI, the Fox News Channel, Hotline and Salon.com have reported the detail, a Lexis-Nexis search shows.
Of the hundreds of other press reports on the Santorum brouhaha, not a single mainstream outlet decided to mention the Kerry tie-in.
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Press Mum on Kerry Tie to Santorum Controversy
News that Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign manager just happens to be married to the reporter whose interview of Sen. Rick Santorum created the political firestorm of the week hasn't gotten much mainstream press attention.
The word on reporter Lara Jakes Jordan, whose decision to insert the word "[gay]" into Santorum's comments made it appear that he was gay bashing, is that she recently married Kerry campaign chief Jim Jordan.
Coincidentally [of course], Sen. Kerry just happened to be among the first to slam Santorum over the remark, a comment so innocuous it likely would have gone completely unnoticed except for Jakes Jordan's creative editing.
"These comments take us backwards in America," Kerry told the New York Times on Wednesday, before turning his fire on the Bush administration.
"The White House speaks the rhetoric of compassionate conservatism but they're silent while their chief lieutenants make divisive and hurtful comments that have no place in our politics."
Another coincidence [of course] is the fact that the AP decided to sit on its creative scribe's report until the Iraq war was over.
With the media now desperately searching for a new topic, Santorum's remark became instant headlines. But had the AP covered the Pennsylvania Republican's comment on April 7, when Jakes Jordan obtained it, it would have had to compete with news that the U.S. troops had just reached Baghdad - a development so big that the Santorum "scoop" would have been instantly forgotten.
Though the Jakes Jordan-Kerry connection is easily the most intriguing aspect of the entire story, to date only UPI, the Fox News Channel, Hotline and Salon.com have reported the detail, a Lexis-Nexis search shows.
Of the hundreds of other press reports on the Santorum brouhaha, not a single mainstream outlet decided to mention the Kerry tie-in.
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