Looks like Alexandra…

Looks like Alexandra Polier has come out to categorically deny a relationship with John Kerry. I can take that at face value, although, as is noted in today’s AP story (emphasis mine),

In a separate statement, Polier’s parents, Terry and Donna Polier of Malvern, Pa., dismissed the “completely false and unsubstantiated” allegations about their daughter.

“We love and support her 100 percent and these unfounded rumors are hurtful to our entire family,” the statement said. “We appreciate the way Senator Kerry has handled the situation, and intend on voting for him for president of the United States.”

The statement did not address purported quotes by Polier’s parents in the British tabloid The Sun that were harshly critical of Kerry.

The original statements can be found here. There’s that, and the original comment from Wesley Clark that took this story from the rumor mill (it had been going around before Clark said anything) to full-fledged story (and I don’t hear any Democrat yet dissing Clark over rumormongering; that charge they leave for Matt Drudge who had the audacity to report what a presidential candidate said). I’m not going to consider this an issue unless more comes of it, but those two items are annoying, and ought to be so even for Kerry supporters.

(And then reports like this show up, saying that an American TV network has a taped interview of Polier from last December discussing her relationship with Kerry.)

UPDATE: …and then reports like this appear where TIME magazine (that bastion of right-wing ideological reporting…or not) says of Miss Polier, “She would joke that she was dating the next president of the United States, says a source.”

And reports like this from the BBC that quote a Washington Post London correspondent:

“We’ve been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don’t feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold.

“All we have at the moment is that the woman’s parents, who are republicans, don’t like Senator Kerry.

Except they just got through saying they liked Kerry and planned on voting for him. But this contradiction doesn’t rise to the level of “news” for the WaPo folks.

I know, I know, I just finished saying I wasn’t going to consider this an issue until more real information came out, but the contradictions in this story keep popping up faster than the Whack-A-Mole game at Six Flags. It’s worth keeping in the back of your mind for later when the press incessantly needles Bush over a story with far fewer contradictions.

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