You’ve just gotta read this….

So I was down in DC this past weekend and happened to run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that “everyone knows” The LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready to go about what is a potentially devastating sexual scandal involving a leading Presidential candidate. “Everyone knows” meaning everyone in the DC mainstream media political reporting world. “Sitting on it” because the paper couldn’t decide the complex ethics of whether and when to run it. The way I heard it they’d had it for a while but don’t know what to do. The person who told me )not an LAT person) knows I write and didn’t say “don’t write about this”.

If it’s true, I don’t envy the LAT. I respect their hesitation, their dilemma, deciding to run or not to run it raises a lot of difficult journalism ethics questions and they’re likely to be attacked, when it comes out—the story or their suppression of the story—whatever they do.

I asked Rosenbaum the following question: You said, “The person who told me (not an LAT person) knows I write and didn’t say “don’t write about this”.”
Do you suppose that your acquaintance assumed you would write about it, or that you wouldn’t?
his response:
It’s a valid question and I can’t be certain, but I didn’t get the feeling there was calculation behind it; it came up casually in the course of a meandering discussion with two others present, not as if it was designed to achieve an objective.

So, RR doesn’t believe he was being set up to be the one who would break the story and give the pack an excuse to jump in….

Blogger Vince Foster has an interesting SWAG theory…

I’ve been getting a few emails from people who say they work in Washington and everyone “knows” about this relationship. Once again - this is just throwing this out there. It is about Hillary’s relationship with her “right hand woman” Huma.
Who is Huma? Read about her here:
For instance, I got an email from an government email address recently “usdoj.gov” who wrote:
I am close enough to both Hillary and Huma to know that it is an open secret on the campaign that those two are romantically involved. It is something you will never get them to verify though…

So… I’m just going to throw this out there as a wild hunch of why the LATimes is sitting on this story.

I do get a lot of viewers looking at that page on my website. Are they looking at that page because they are hearing about the rumor?

Makes as much sense as any of the other theories out there.

Update: Others are blogging

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Not long ago, we blogged about the Chairman of the House Judiciary Commitee, John Conyers, and his decision to politicize the committee by deciding to ask for confidential whistleblowers to come forward if they had information regarding the Justice Department since 2001.

So what happened? TPM has the story…

…in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, including presumably whistleblowers themselves, and all of the recipients of the email were accidentally included in the “to:” field — instead of concealing those addresses with a so-called blind carbon copy or “bcc:”. […]

Compounding the mistake, the committee later sent out a second email attempting to recall the original email; it, too, included all recipients in the “to:” field, according to a recipient of the emails.

Attaboy, John. You’re a Real Man of Genius……

It’s a catchy tune, and you can dance to it! Doug Ross takes off, check it out.

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From AP

Sunglasses shielding his sleepless eyes, David Ortiz held the glittering World Series trophy aloft for Red Sox fans gathered outside Fenway Park.

“Man, we got it man,” Big Papi told reporters, his hands still on baseball’s ultimate prize.

“There was a lot of celebration,” Ortiz said. “I got to go. I am tired.”

The city is planning a rolling rally Tuesday from Fenway to City Hall Plaza. The parade will pause in three spots - Copley Square, the Boston Common and City Hall Plaza - so closer Jonathan Papelbon can dance his wacky Irish jig.

Here is exclusive video of Papelbon leading the team in the dance routine.

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NY Sun: Rising in Polls, Huckabee Could Be GOP’s Dark Horse of 2008

“This is a guy who brought the house down at the Values Voter Summit, wins or comes close to winning every debate, shocked everyone by placing second in the Ames, Iowa, straw poll, and is now inching toward the top of the polls in the Iowa caucuses,” Charlie Gerow, a Republican strategist in Harrisburg, told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

Byron York in NRO: Huckabee: What’s true and what’s not

With his recent rise in the polls and improved fundraising, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has become the talk of the Republican presidential race. With that new prominence comes new criticism, and Huckabee has taken a lot of it in the past week, mostly for his record on taxes, but also for his handling of a notorious case in which he pardoned a convicted rapist who then went on to commit murder.

Huckabee is getting his defense together. But in August, just before his strong showing in the Ames, Iowa straw poll, he sat down with Byron York for an extended conversation in which he gave his side of the story on the big issues. The article appeared on the cover of the September 10 issue of National Review, available for free to non-subscribers for the first time today.

Newt.Org: Leading the Majority

Last week on Leading the Majority, Rick and Vince hosted former Governor of AR and 2008 Presidential Candidate, Mike Huckabee to discuss his stance on the 5 great challenges facing America.

USA Today: Huckabee could have ’spirit of Reagan’

“At a time when GOP candidates are falling all over themselves to rekindle the spirit of Ronald Reagan in their party,” our Gannett colleague David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register writes in his column today, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is “coming as close as anyone.”

The Nation: Thompson Tanks in Iowa.

Mike Huckabee, not Fred Thompson, is the Republican to watch in Iowa. A new poll released by the University of Iowa shows Huckabee jumping from 1.8 percent in August to 12.8 percent in October, putting him just behind Rudy Giuliani (13.2%) and ahead of Thompson (11.4 %).

Human Events polls conservatives

Human Events’ presidential preference poll of American conservatives found that former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson leads the competition for conservative support with 23% of the participants selecting him over the other candidates. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tied for second with 19%, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in third at 13% and Arizona Sen. John McCain — in what is probably a direct result of his stance on amnesty for illegal aliens — came in dead last at 2.1%

Got other headlines or articles of interest? Bring ‘em on!

Also: the campaign reports that it is within $80,000 of reaching the very ambitious fundraising goal for October. Please consider helping if you can…. $20.08 for 2008!

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n2l sends a nice one from Johnny Lang.
Not a bad way to wind up the day.

Nite y’all.

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