DEMS CLAIM NASA LEAKED PHOTOS TO SMEAR
Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill claims 'dirty tricks' by NASA after it released 'surprise' photographs showing the Dem presidential hopeful dressed in a space suit crawling through a rocket hatch.
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HUME: i must ask you about this photograph that suddenly turned up and fell in our laps last night nobody thought it was come. nobody had reported on the event which led to-t but there he was, the senator, on all fours in this very peculiar outfit, which i guess nasa had given him. how did that come about?I just want to get the conspiracy fetishists in the left wing jawing about that photographer getting payoffs from the Bush campaign.
CAHILL: well, yesterday senator john glenn, obviously he was an astronaut in his previous life sexrvings senator carr took a tour of a bio facility at nasa. it was just the two of them, and the NASA staff, and all of a sudden this is a leaked photo.
Geez, a presidential candidate tours NASA poses for photos, and they get out. Fancy that. How odd?
HUME: it was leaked?
CAHILL: yes.
HUME: it was made by NASA, right?
CAHILL: yes, it was.
HUME: so the campaign had no idea there would be any photographs.
Can the Kerry campaign be this stupid? Quick, folks! They won't take our offer for the Brooklyn Bridge, but Grant's Tomb has possibilities. . .
CAHILL: none.
HUME: when it was agreed he would put on his the costume?
CAHILL: there was no press there. there was -- nothing. all of the sudden these photographs are out.
Well, it was a "clean room", and Kerry has been known to shoot a gun and get shot by his own riccochet. Very messy. Gotta be careful.
HUME: do you smell a dirty trick here? CAHILL: well, what do you think?
HUME: that NASA is not a particularly political organization.
CAHILL: this was a pledge i want tour, obviously that, senator glenn and senator kerry were taking at cape canaveral, and all of the sudden these photographs appeared, and, you know, take it as you may. brit: well, is there any concern that this photo might prove as embarrassing as the fabled tank photo did in 1988?
CAHILL: you know, i think probably nasa will release the photograph of senator glenn, former astronaut, in the same —
HUME: in fact, there is a shot with a bunch of them in these outfits. he is not running, of course.
CAHILL: and the thing is this is a legitimate tour of a nasa facility, and this photograph appeared out of nowhere. we were surprised. we're not surprised now.
HUME: you don't have anyone in mind? do you think --
CAHILL: i don't.
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Filed By Matt Drudge
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