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Who leaked nude photos of Nova Scotia NDP candidate?
by Scott Gilbreath ~ May 8th, 2009
Last month, someone from the Nova Scotia Liberal Party sent topless photos of actress and NDP candidate Lenore Zann to CBC reporter Paul Withers. The photos showed Ms Zann’s appearance in a shower scene on the lesbian television show The L Word. A brouhaha promptly erupted with the NDP in high dudgeon accusing the Liberals of smearing their star candidate, and the CBC went along for the ride.
Liberal leader Stephen McNeil groveled in apology, assuring everyone that such exposure of events on the public record is intolerable (or something like that).
The name of the Liberal Party worker who sent the photos to CBC has never been made public—until now. Atlantic Canada Frank has the leak news.
Fingerprints on her flapdoodles
By Dee KuppI have it on impeccable authority that Stephen McNeil’s liberal caucus was in complete revolt mode over the Lenore Zann Flapdoodle Scandal (Frank 557). And not over the handling of the ill-advised affair, but the fact that it even happened in the first place.
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To the provincial caucus members there just didn’t seem a point to sending any images of Lenore Zann to anybody.Why? They couldn’t see any point to it, and apparently neither could CBC-TV’s political reporter Paul Withers and his bosses.
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But there was a point.The point was, I’m told, that Dale Palmeter is still mad that they don’t raise the gay flag in Truro.
Palmeter, the 45-year-old paid political sidekick to Kings-Hants MP Scott Brison, is technicalIy the “volunteer” Stephen McNeil referred to when he said somebody had been reprimanded over the political embarrassment caused by the added exposure of Lenore’s flapdoodles.
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The logic behind the flapdoodle leak, I’m told, was that if these people are too prudish to even raise the gay flag, just wait until they see Lenore Zanri removing her goodself from a communal shower full of naked women on a lesbo television show.
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According to sources, the Internet images were sent to Withers by Dale with the knowledge and support of campaign chairman Chris Macinnes.
That makes more sense than the absurd claim that the photos were an attempt to “smear” Lenore Zann. According to Frank’s source, the photos were sent by a long-time, (formerly) respected Liberal operative for the purpose of impelling the Liberals to adopt his agenda—and with the connivance of high-level party apparatchiks.
If that was the intention, the scheme backfired magnificently. It sounds like Mr McNeil’s apology to Lenore Zann missed the point. Some Liberal operatives owe both her and their own party an apology for trying to use her to bolster their side in an internal party debate.
The story appears in the print edition of Atlantic Canada Frank issue 558 (dated 12 May) but not online, so there is no link to the full text.
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