Reply #9: Don't confuse the National Enquirer with the other tabloids.

[Jackpine Radical]

The National Enquirer hasn't been proved wrong on this kind of story in many years. They got burned very badly years ago in a libel/defamation lawsuit & have been very reliable in getting their gossip right ever since. They are the ones who broke a bunch of nasty-but-true Enron stories a few years ago. They were also anthraxed after printing stuff about the Bush twins. Stuff that turned out to be 100% on the mark. Believe them. About the drinking, anyway. Not necessarily about how compassionate the Resident Psychopath is or how much he bleeds for the dead troops. That stuff is no doubt fluff. But the core of the story will turn out to be dead-on. You don't publish stuff like this in the current journalistic climate without having your ducks in a row. And maybe a far worse story that you're holding back as a second-strike in case Rove goes after you.