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Date: August 26, 2007 9:22:00 AM PDT
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Subject: Karl Rove's Mentor in "Dirty Tricks" Plays a Bad Hand
Roger Stone Sings Again
Why isn't the Washington Post covering his latest embarrassment?
By Timothy Noah
Posted Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, at 3:12 PM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2172781/
Perhaps the most poignant aspect of Roger Stone's latest
humiliation is that the Washington Post has yet to report on it.
It's possible the Post is slow to jump on the story only because
it's late August, a time when newsrooms are traditionally short-
staffed, and news travels with unaccustomed slowness. But one can't
help wondering whether the Post has simply decided that the decline
and fall of a once-powerful Republican political consultant —
dubbed the "state-of-the-art sleazeball" 22 years ago in the New
Republic (by future Slate editor Jacob Weisberg)—is well-enough
along that it really isn't news that Stone apparently left the 83-
year-old father of Elliot Spitzer, who suffers from Parkinson's
disease, a bizarre and hate-filled voice message in which Stone
gloated over a subpoena headed the elderly gentleman's way from the
Republican-controlled New York State Senate. In the message, Stone
apparently referred to the New York governor as "your phony,
psycho, piece-of-shit son."
I say "apparently" only because Stone claims, pathetically, that
somebody else broke into his apartment and made the phone call from
his phone. Somebody capable of performing an uncannily good
impersonation of Stone's own voice. Click on the player below to
listen to the message:
Stone suspects his landlord, who "has been hostile and has hassled
me through management about supposedly late rent checks." Stone's
client, New York Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno,
nonetheless cut Stone loose, "based on the allegations," and
perhaps also on the ineptitude of Stone's alibi, which placed him
in the audience of the Broadway play Frost/Nixon on a night when
that play was not performed. Stone is still a sleazeball, but he
can no longer be termed state-of-the-art.
In his 1985 New Republic piece, Weisberg identified Stone as a
pioneer of the now-routine practice whereby a consultant helps a
member of Congress get elected and then proceeds to lobby said
member on behalf of private corporations. (It's reassuring to
remember there was a time when people could be shocked by such
things.) Stone acquired his taste for the gutter in 1972, when the
soon-to-be Watergate felon Charles Colson directed Stone to send
campaign contributions to a Nixon opponent in the names of radical
groups and then forward the receipts to the right-wing Manchester
Union-Leader. News of the prank subsequently got Stone fired from
the staff of Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan. (though Dole would later hire
Stone to work on his 1996 presidential campaign). Stone went on to
co-found the influential National Conservative Political Action
Committee and to become partners with Lee Atwater, who later became
President George H.W. Bush's Karl Rove.
The 1990s and the aughts were less kind to Stone. He received much
ridicule for devoting his energies to making a star out of Clive
Baldwin, a lounge singer whose specialty was impersonating Al
Jolson in blackface. In 1996, the National Enquirer splashed on its
cover a story alleging that Stone and his wife (he has since
remarried) posted ads for group sex in swingers' magazines. (Stone
denied it.) Stone's reputation rebounded, at least among right-
wingers, when journalist Jeffrey Toobin credited him with
organizing the "Brooks Brothers riot" in Miami-Dade County, Fla.,
during the contested presidential recount, but it tumbled again
when Stone was revealed to be orchestrating Al Sharpton's
presidential campaign in 2004. According to the Village Voice,
Stone told Sharpton that they shared "a mutual obsession: We both
hate the Democratic party."
Now Stone has hit bottom. Me, I think that's more than a local New
York story.
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