-Caveat Lector- New York Post 12/25/99 PAGE SIX [[Gossip Column]] By RICHARD JOHNSON with Ian Spiegelman WHO'S BEHIND BUSH SMEAR STORY? PRESIDENTIAL hopeful George W. Bush is the target of a seedy little smear campaign. The National Enquirer reports that a 35-year-old ex-stripper and former Playboy model is peddling a story that she had an 18-month affair with the Republican Texas governor that ended last June. The supermarket weekly flatly calls Phillips' story "false" and says it "raises the question of who put her up to trying to destroy the Bush campaign." Tammy Phillips claimed she was introduced to Bush by her uncle, an influential Atlanta lobbyist, at a December 1997 political function at a Midland, Tex., hotel. "I was wearing a tiny miniskirt," Phillips told the Enquirer, "and it was instant combustion." But her uncle, who wishes to remain anonymous, has documents proving he was nowhere near Midland on the night in question. Phillips still insisted that she and Bush had a total of eight liaisons ending with a June 1998 tryst in San Diego. She claimed to have a love note from Bush, but steadfastly refused to produce it. So, could Phillips have been put up to the story by political dirty tricksters? The Al Gore camp tells PAGE SIX they had nothing to do with it: "It's absolutely ridiculous," says Gore 2000 spokesman Peter Ragone. "No one in our campaign has ever even heard about this." Radio talk show host and convicted Watergate schemer G. Gordon Liddy told the Enquirer that Bush's own words have made him vulnerable to scandal-mongers. "Gov. Bush has made statements like ‘I was young and foolish' that give credibility to a story of sexual promiscuity," said Liddy. Ari Fleischer, spokesman for the Bush campaign, tells us he's "not interested in where it came from. It's an unfortunate part of the nonsense of politics that demeans our system and debases any institution it touches." But PAGE SIX has learned that crusading pornographer Larry Flynt -- who during Monicagate offered $1 million to anyone who could prove they'd had an illicit affair with a Republican congressman or senator -- is taking the matter seriously. "We are looking into these allegations," says Flynt. "But it's part of an on-going investigation that encompasses more than just the stripper." <<SNIP>> ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om