By Jennifer J. Foster
Posted 07/21 at 10:24 PM
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Remember Gary Condit, the California congressman who came under suspicion in the disappearance of D.C. intern Chandra Levy?
Levy was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2001 and was set to graduate from college that year. She disappeared on May 1. Members of her family told law enforcement officials that Levy had been engaged in a romantic affair with Condit before she vanished.
Condit denied involvement in the disappearance—and he denied the affair.
But forensic investigators were able to confirm the affair through DNA evidence. Condit’s credibility was shot.
And that’s how the congressman became the No. 1 suspect in Chandra Levy’s disappearance—and murder, after her remains were found in a D.C. park more than a year after she vanished.
Coverage of the Levy story was ubiquitous throughout the summer and into the early fall. It was displaced on Sept. 11, 2001.
Condit did not resign but was not re-elected that fall.
Levy’s killer was never found.
The Washington Post is doing a 12-part series on the investigation. Read the ninth installment, “Media Frenzy,“ along with other installments here.
By Jennifer J. Foster
Posted 07/21 at 08:49 AM
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RealClearPolitics has given us more evidence of how UNITED the Democratic Party is.
Kyle Trygstad writes that a discussion between DLC chairman Harold Ford Jr. and DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas laid the party’s fault line bare for the world to see:
While Ford and Moulitsas respectfully agreed and disagreed on issues and overall strategies of the Democratic Party, Ford was assailed during the question-and-answer session that followed, with one questioner (who referred to him as “Senator Ford”) calling him a right wing shill and attacking him for his previous work as a Fox News analyst.
Free speech: Only good when applied to Daily Kos bloggers.
But wait! There’s more!
The overall mood of the convention—from what attendees and Moulitsas himself are saying—is that the members of the netroots don’t see themselves as the left wing-extended, as many regard the liberal online community to be; but rather they feel they’re representative of mainstream America.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!
Read the rest here.
As an extension of that, we have Heather Wilhelm, who reports to us that “Denver’s Big Show” will actually be “quite a sideshow, with groups including Students for Peace and Justice and CODEPINK participating. Most groups are advertising their non-violent strategies, but one group, Unconventional Denver, has already gained a bit of a reputation for causing trouble.“
Trouble? At a DNC convention?
(With incredulity)
GASP!!
No!!
That would be unprecedented, really!
Click here for the rest of Wilhelm’s post—and a parting line that’s a keeper.
By Jennifer J. Foster
Posted 07/21 at 08:37 AM
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I was checking out the Tour de France web site to look for news about that rider who broke his shoulder yesterday, and I found an interesting ad.
Who knew that the U.S. Navy advertised among fans of the Tour de France?
It’s a sidebar ad picturing a woman carrying a baby with the words, “Accelerate your life.“
Check it out here.
