Bernard Kerik - Man Of Values
The flood gates open on Bush's first choice to replace Tom Ridge. This guy's a Klass act (with a capital K).
Now his double affair laid bare
Kerik cheated on wife with Judith Regan and correction officerFormer NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik conducted two extramarital affairs simultaneously, using a secret Battery Park City apartment for the passionate liaisons, the Daily News has learned.
The first relationship, spanning nearly a decade, was with city Correction Officer Jeanette Pinero; the second, and more startling, was with famed publishing titan Judith Regan.
His affair with Regan, the stunningly attractive head of her own book publishing company, lasted for almost a year.
Dramatically, each woman learned of the existence of the other after Pinero discovered a love note left by Regan in the apartment.
Just more republican family values.
This is the guy recommended by Guliani who proudly paraded his mistress before the television cameras.
Posted by: bob | Dec 13, 2004 at 09:48 AM
Well, if nothing else, this entire debacle reveals that Kerik is way too stupid to be entrusted with "homeland security". How dumb could he be to think that all this stuff wasn't going to come out sooner or later after he accepted Bush's nomination?!?
Posted by: Romdinstler Jones | Dec 13, 2004 at 09:52 AM
No, I think we want someone extremely dumb in charge of State Security.
Failure in harassing the American public is a goal to be encouraged.
Next question - would ANYONE date that man?
Posted by: | Dec 13, 2004 at 10:44 AM
Well, at least some of the media is still probing. How long before that gets stifled, too? Thank God for blogs. Thanks, Howard.
Posted by: Ben Hurst | Dec 13, 2004 at 10:59 AM
Please. PLEASE let this cheap cop on the take rub off on Phony Rudy. I don't want to wait until Spring 2008 to see him trashed. Because when he decides to run against Fat Jeb the Adulterer we know Closeted Karl will throw all the sleaze he can at "America's Mayor" then back to McCain, the Scourge Of Steroids.
Posted by: Benji | Dec 13, 2004 at 11:14 AM
SO MUCH FOR THE REPUBLICAN ...SET OF VALUES..
SUCH HYPOCRITES
Posted by: Alice Allen | Dec 13, 2004 at 12:30 PM
Kerik is only the tip of the scum; just imagine how much Giuliani is covering up. This is the guy who had his chauffeur (Kerik) drive him to his adulterous liaisons with his current wife while his former wife was deliverying other news on TV. Family values to set up the young Giuliani who used to attend Yankees games with his moral dad. We must wonder if there was any coke served up at the dinner with the "president," last night.
"Oh, no, mr. president, you snort first."
They are traitors all, and our boys and girls continue to get killed in a land where they have no right to be. All the while, the "leaders" of this country enjoy immunity from prosecution because they are the prosecutors. How mad is that? And where are the media? No doubt checking out new hairsprays...or wondering how best to spend the bribes (tax refunds) from the White House.
Posted by: Brendan O'Maidian | Dec 13, 2004 at 12:55 PM
Funnily enuf, on NPR's "Diane Rehm Show" this AM, the only problem the esteemed pundits could come up with on Kerik was the nanny. Just proving once again how deep NPR is in the backside of corporate Amerika.
Posted by: Nancy Jackson | Dec 13, 2004 at 12:59 PM
GARBAGE IN/GARBAGE OUT--Kerik got impeached before
he even assumed office--the system works!
Posted by: Montag | Dec 13, 2004 at 12:59 PM
Hey, nothing wrong with Kerik's values! You see anything is acceptable to Republicans:
Limbaugh 's a drug addict......hey, no problem...he's still on the air.
O'Reilly harrasing his assistant......hey, no problem, he's still on the air.
Everything is okay with these guys.
Posted by: Phil | Dec 13, 2004 at 01:35 PM
Everything's OK...as long as you are one of them...
Posted by: Arthur Riddick | Dec 13, 2004 at 01:52 PM
"Morals and Values"? What a sack full of Santa crap! Hypocrits ALL!
Posted by: Dorie | Dec 13, 2004 at 02:22 PM
Just another Rethuglican pig with the refractory stench of hypocrisy being too palpable to whitewash. There's nothing new here. These are the same low-life filthy vermin who spent a hundred million dollars going after Clinton like a pack of feral dogs. It's not the affairs that make one want to gag, it's the hypocrisy stupid.
Posted by: David Christie | Dec 13, 2004 at 02:23 PM
I heard several weeks ago that it was only a matter of time before Mr. Kerik self-destructed...what a jerk!! But wait...who was the man that appointed him??? "Mr Values" himself and I think that he should be on the receiving end of what they tried to do to Bill Clinton...Shame on you Bush!! And while I am at it, also: Karl Rove, Dich Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and others who lived up to their billing and hacked and stole the 2004 Presidential Election...God is watching you and so are we!!
Posted by: jim | Dec 13, 2004 at 02:40 PM
Talk about arrogance.
I don't believe for a minute that Bush,Inc. did not know about Kerik's rap sheet. They just thought they could steamroll his nomination and install another thug in the ever-burgeoning stable of perps.
Kinda sad. BK was a natural for the job of spying and intimidation. Not to worry though;the next nominee may be even worse. Brrrr...
Posted by: Ansel | Dec 13, 2004 at 02:47 PM
It's good to hear about Republican dalliances. Usually we only hear those stories about Democrats. Neil Bush has the morals of a Texas wild boar. Between cheating thousands of Colorado seniors out of their retirement savings, and cheating on his wife with a married woman, he wins the "screwed up moral values" award. Papa Bush kept a mistress in Washington while he was Vice-president. We have to search pretty far to learn about her. And let's consider Laura Bush. She knew George only 3 months when she married him. Let's see, she knew he was a drunk (he was drinking heavily until the twins were born) ah, but she also knew he had money. Somehow, they just don't pass my moral litmus test.
Posted by: Barbara Paul | Dec 13, 2004 at 02:54 PM
oh yeh--I really want a high school dropout to be
in charge of national security-fits right in
with the president we have
Posted by: al fiorini | Dec 13, 2004 at 02:58 PM
Let's label this whole bunch of so-called neocons (they are NOT conservatives by any stretch of the imagination) for what they really are... Fascists! Did you know that much of the cold war was a scam, hyped lies about WMD? And that it was the same guys -- Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, etc. hyping that scam that are hyping the terror and Iraq scams today? See my blogs of 12/12 and 12/13/04 at:
http://news-opinion. blog-city.com -- Bryce
Posted by: Bryce | Dec 13, 2004 at 03:16 PM
The Bush administration is only showing their true colors that Americans had been warned about over the years. The vast majority of the states didn't listen then and they probably never will. I,m just glad the second world war didn't depend on these guys, we would be saluting Hitler. When and if these misled followers wake up all I can say is " Don't blame me, I voted for John Kerry."
Posted by: Chuck Smiddy | Dec 13, 2004 at 03:58 PM
Kerik is the ultimate crooked cop. Everything about him makes him an ideal candidate for the "moral values" (Bush- DUI that they strove mightily to cover up and Chgeney- two DUI's) Kerik was supposed to serve 6 months in Iraq. As soon as the bombs exploded, he beat a hasty retreat with his tail between his legs after only 14 weeks. Proves one thing. When the going gets tough, the Re-thugs go the other way. By the way, it's nice to know that the yellow stripe down Bush's back is still there, and getting wider.
Posted by: Charles Karafotias | Dec 13, 2004 at 04:40 PM
You gotta give the guy credit, a couple women and a full time job--- it could be worse, he could have raised a couple drunken twins, or a drugo daughter, or started a useless war. Give credit where credit is due, at least we know he is not a right-wing-religous-zealot, he has a reason to want to get up tomorrow morning (two in fact).
Posted by: Mark Thisdown | Dec 13, 2004 at 05:23 PM
Man I just looked up some pictures of judith regan and that dude must either have a big donger a highly flexible tounge or she aint wearing the glasses that she should be....he is a very ugly man
Posted by: tony | Dec 13, 2004 at 05:44 PM
one more thing when is "candida" Limbaugh the drug addict radio jock's name gonna come up he's got a lot to answer the way he craps on whilst hes on the air...get him off pleease..,
Posted by: tony | Dec 13, 2004 at 05:51 PM
Kerik = just one more example of why more animals should eat their young.
Posted by: Susie | Dec 13, 2004 at 06:06 PM
Why is no one asking if Kerik was vetted before he was sent to Iraq to train the Iraqi police? After all, he must have had access to secret material at that point. The administration either is so arrogant they think the people the appoint must be accepted of they are really stupid.
Posted by: Jeanne Fischer | Dec 13, 2004 at 06:13 PM