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The Stone mystique is carefully curated. Stone recalls early on how, at a mock election at his elementary school, he took a liking to John F. Kennedy because he had “better hair” than Nixon, and he persuaded his classmates to vote for JFK by assuring them Nixon planned to introduce school on Saturdays. “For the first time ever, I understood the value of misinformation,” Stone says, with a glint in his eye.
originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
Wow. You evidently know absolutely nothing about this guy.
For nearly forty years, Stone has hovered around Republican and national politics, both near the center and at the periphery.
At times, mostly during the Reagan years, he was a political consultant and lobbyist who, in conventional terms, was highly successful, working for such politicians as Bob Dole and Tom Kean.
Even then, though, Stone regularly crossed the line between respectability and ignominy, and he has become better known for leading a colorful personal life than for landing big-time clients
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Stone served as a senior consultant to Bob Dole’s 1996 campaign for President, but that assignment ended in a characteristic conflagration.
The National Enquirer, in a story headlined “Top Dole Aide Caught in Group-Sex Ring,” reported that the Stones had apparently run personal ads in a magazine called Local Swing Fever and on a Web site that had been set up with Nydia’s credit card.
“Hot, insatiable lady and her handsome body builder husband, experienced swingers, seek similar couples or exceptional muscular single men,” the ad on the Web site stated.
The ads sought athletes and military men, while discouraging overweight candidates, and included photographs of the Stones.
At the time, Stone claimed that he had been set up by a “very sick individual,” but he was forced to resign from Dole’s campaign.
Stone acknowledged to me that the ads were authentic.
“When that whole thing hit the fan in 1996, the reason I gave a blanket denial was that my grandparents were still alive,” he said.
“I’m not guilty of hypocrisy. I’m a libertarian and a libertine.”
...
After our lunch, Stone summoned his chauffeur-driven Jaguar—he owned four Jaguars at the time—to take us downtown, so that he could walk me through the events that concluded the Miami recount.
On November 21, 2000, the Florida Supreme Court gave Gore an important victory by ruling that the deadline for recounts would be extended to November 26th.
At that point, the top priority for the Gore forces was to get the recounts up and running, especially in Miami-Dade County, which is the most populous in the state.
On the Republican side, according to Stone, “The whole idea behind what they were doing was that there had already been one recount of the votes, so we didn’t want another.
The idea was to shut it down, stop the recount here in Miami.”
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
originally posted by: angeldoll
Good lord, his voice sounds like he just drank a solution of alcohol and razor blades. Is something wrong with him?
(I mean, other than the obvious).
First time listening to Alex then?
your ears will never be the same, nor would your mind, if I were you I would stop now before the damage is done, save yourself! its too late for me!!
originally posted by: tigertatzen
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
originally posted by: angeldoll
Good lord, his voice sounds like he just drank a solution of alcohol and razor blades. Is something wrong with him?
(I mean, other than the obvious).
First time listening to Alex then?
your ears will never be the same, nor would your mind, if I were you I would stop now before the damage is done, save yourself! its too late for me!!
You're not kidding...I'm deaf in one ear and I have zero problem hearing that maniac! It's like Sam Kennison and Miss Piggy from the Muppets had a really loud, ugly, unpleasant baby.