Freepers will have a field day with this: Kerry's daughter busted for DUI

Alexandra Kerry DUI: John Kerry's Daughter Arrested In Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — The daughter of Sen. John Kerry has been arrested in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk.

Los Angeles police say 36-year-old Alexandra Kerry was stopped by officers on a Hollywood street at about 12:40 a.m. Thursday and tested positive for driving under the influence.

Officer Bruce Borihanh says she was booked at the Hollywood police station and was held for about five hours. She was released at about 5:30 a.m. after posting $5,000 bail.

Borihanh didn't immediately have other details.

Alexandra Kerry is the eldest daughter of the Massachusetts senator, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee.

She has produced documentaries and has had several small acting roles.

Requests for comment from Alexandra Kerry's agent and John Kerry's office were not immediately returned.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/alexandra-kerry-dui-john_n_363721.html

Oh, wait, IOKIYAR

was young.

No police investigation so no evidence of her drunk driving was preserved.

some time, she is on the opposite side of the continent from her father..why should he have any kind of comment about it? Another piece of stupid news.

I bet she is very ashamed of her actions...She should be and I have no pity for her although I like and respect her very much..

for drug use and possession...hmmm. As I recall she was a poor mis-guided girl and deserved leniency.

for drug use and possession...hmmm. As I recall she was a poor mis-guided girl and deserved leniency.

demanding Senator Kerry's resignation by tomorrow morning. :beer: :puke:

http://www.rightcelebrity.com/?p=7290

I don't condone drunk driving, but it seems that by the legal standard, she was not drunk.

Now that some people already have their knickers in a knot, some facts about journalism:

1. Of course it's going to be mentioned in the headline and the lead paragraph that she's John Kerry's daughter. The family connection to a well-known politician who once ran for president is newsworthy--regardless of why she is in the news.

2. The story mentions her age because ALL stories of arrests include the age of the person being arrested. In fact, most routine news stories list the ages of all the parties. This is not meant as an editorial comment on what the person mentioned here did, or whether she should have been old enough to know better at her age, or any other such thing. It's just a ROUTINE FACT.

3. She "refused preliminary screening"; that was why she was arrested for DUI. Under any state law in which you are stopped and your mere refusal to take a sobriety test subjects you to arrest, that's all it takes. Also, although .06 BAC is under the legal state limit of .08, sites are reporting that this is enough to be charged under California law. Another FACT.

I know it's really unpleasant whenever a Dem does something stupid and gets caught doing it, and no one likes to hear the freepers crow and gloat. But really--the reportage above is not offensive in content nor is it meant to be. It's just the facts. Not an evil journalist trying to make hay out of the situation.

Edited to add: Of COURSE her father's office was also called for comment...because of who he is. That's a journalist covering his/her butt, is all. No journalist in his/her right mind expects to receive an actual comment under such circumstances. But they're not doing their job unless they can say they made a request for one and it was turned down. Unpleasant, but true.

I say all this because there are enough REAL examples of media bias that there is no need to go looking for it when it's not there. I mean, really. Getting angry just because the event was reported in the first place, or because the age of the arrested person was given...sheesh.

A free press is what our founding fathers wanted for us, and for all its problems, we are still better off with it than without it.

"I plead innocent on the grounds that some other person in some other state at some other time in some other circumstance
just got slapped on the wrist."

:eyes:

I bear no ill will toward this young woman or anyone else in her family. But drunk driving is STUPID and we need to be less tolerant of it in our society than we are.

I am sure that if it were a Republican pol's family member stopped, DU would be full of snark and gloat. But somehow, when one of ours does it, we need to kinda sweep it under the rug?

I leave it to the authorities involved to sort this out. A good idea, I think.

which tends to absolve the accused on our side.

Not good.

It is very likely that she did not think she was drunk. There is nothing to sweep under the rug. I assume that she will now be more aware that she really can't drink more than a glass of wine and then drive.

Frankly, if one of George Bush's kids were arrested with BAC of .06, I would think it unfair that it was all over the news.

The fact is that does make a difference to people's interpretation of the article. Playing with one of the alcohol calculators, 2 glasses of wine could cause that if you weigh 120 pounds. (I have no idea what AK weighs, but she is tall and thin.)

And what about Jenna Bush being in the news all the time for being drunk?

Like THEY have room to talk - geesh.

Glad no one else was hurt, too.