Part Butler & Part Buddy, Aide Keeps Kerry Running (NY Times interviews Kerry's Butler)

NY Times ^ | 4/28/04

[TheSpottedOwl]

That was for Mr. Kerry. Mr. Nicholson swallowed a mini Krackle chocolate bar, smoked a couple of cigarettes, then washed down two nut-covered brownies with a Coke.

Nice. The butler gets to forage for food out of vending machines.

[dead]

He has dual Canadian/US citizenship.

Très international, no?

[dead]

I've started watching it with my kids a couple of times, but both times I fell asleep. (I do this all the time when I try to watch movies with them.)

It looked pretty funny from the parts I've seen.

[dighton]

Lurch's Lurch.

[ErnBatavia]

Before bedtime, he starts but rarely finishes movies like "Seabiscuit" and "The Blues Brothers" in his hotel suite

...then he switches to the hotel's "Channel 3" and gets some assistance in fantacising about Terayza, his homebound 65 year old bride.

[Constitution Day]

Lurch's Lurch.

I bet Kerry has a lot of fun with the maids with this little trick.

[SamAdams76]

"Marvin takes care of everything," Milton Ferrell, a fund-raiser for Mr. Kerry in Florida, said as he introduced him to a donor at a reception that afternoon. "He's the reason Senator Kerry is here and alive."

What...does he keep his heart beating too? This is too much!

And when is Kerry going to pay this guy a "living wage?" For crying out loud, Kerry and his obnoxious wife are worth nearly a billion dollars and all they can scrape up for this poor guy is $45k a year?

Is this Kerry's idea of job creation? Making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the "beautiful people?"

[Howlin]

You mean you missed the part about Mount Wannahockaluggee?

Man, you need to LISTEN....we are positive our kids do NOT get the jokes.

[upchuck]

This is amazing!!

I met this guy in a bar not too long ago. We got to talking and he said his name was Marvin Nicholson. I asked what he did and he kinda lowered his eyes and his eyes and said very softly, "I'm John Kerry's number one buttboy and ace suckup."

Amazing! </sarcasm>

[upchuck]

This is amazing!!

I met this guy in a bar not too long ago. We got to talking and he said his name was Marvin Nicholson. I asked what he did and he kinda lowered his eyes and his eyes and said very softly, "I'm John Kerry's number one buttboy and ace suckup."

Amazing! </sarcasm>

[upchuck]

Oops, sorry for the double post. Sticky mouse button.

[alnick]

A few months ago, he inherited the candidate's 1984 Dodge 600 ES convertible Yet just last week Kerry claimed to still own the Dodge 600.

So a Suburban owned by Teh-rayz-ah isn't Kerry's; it's the family's. But a Dodge 600 owned by Kerry's butler is Kerry's.

Okey-dokey.

[Wolverine]

Mr. Nicholson, drying his hands after washing Kerry's dirty underwear, it's a tough job but at least he lets me sleep on the couch. And I get to eat all the leftovers he doesn't eat. 

[expatpat]

He keeps little black books filled with the names and numbers of people Mr. Kerry meets; dials many of his telephone calls; helps select his neckties and opening one-liners; collects gifts from well-wishers...... and, at night, often stays by his side until he is ready to go to sleep.

What's the fuss? Doesn't every Average Joe have a butler like this?

[visualops]

He works pretty much 24/7 for F'nK. Let's give him a day off. Working 24/6 at that salary is $12.00/hour BEFORE taxes. But, he'd probably tell you it's not about money- he just loves being F'nK's Step'nfetchit.

[mtntop3]

"When Mr. Kerry stays overnight at supporters' homes, it is Mr. Nicholson who accompanies him; in Iowa once, they shared a bathroom. When Mr. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, joins him on the road, Mr. Nicholson's routine hardly changes."

Well, that says it all - doesn't it!! The French style, indeed...

"Total" bran-cereal...strawberry yogurt... peanut butter with eggs...the reader is left with a delineation of a perfectly fastidious - yuppie. (And no wonder that he finds it difficult to speak and impossible to smile - his choppers are stuck together...)

Is it any wonder that the lib's don't like those who like Texas barbecues?

[billhilly]

The essence of all this is a very abnormal human being is unable to care for himself.

[MEG33]

"Butler" story here.

[homemom]

Thanks--this is hilarous!

I think "Mr. Nicholson" sounds just like a WIFE! Interesting freudian thoughts here . . .

[MEG33]

Kerry is a constant source of amusement nowadays...I have so much disdain and unforgiveness for his speech in '71 that is a relief to laugh at him at times.