Posted on 07/12/2004 5:25:51 AM PDT by FlyLow
Married Senator John Kerry in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an "interesting" paradox of conflicts. If you thought John Kerry was scary, he doesn't hold a candle to his wife!
Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, was educated in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60s when she met a "handsome" young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He told her his family was "in the food business."
They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family ran the giant H.J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three terms in the United States Senate A Republican, he wrote a burning diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member (John Kerry).
Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The senator, his pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed. He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.
Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune, she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal junior senator from Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her radicalization was set in motion. Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry to sign a prenuptial agreement before they were married. John Kerry may not have check writing privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it. A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking catsup, mustard, and pickles has fallen into the hands of two people who despise successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money?
Just one example: According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?
• They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.
• They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from "terrorist" states.
• They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.
• They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
• They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico.
These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th President of the United States.
Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America, regardless of your political views. If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and see the real Teresa Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as ultra-rich fairy godmother of the radical left. They will not want to imagine her laying her head on a pillow each night inches away from the President of the United States. Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an engraved invitation in hand.
Instead of deleting this, pass it on. Let everyone know these people are unfit to represent this great nation. The uninformed will never hear the truth from the press, who wants Kerry elected! Those who buy the Kerry facade ....
beware what you vote for. You may regret that you got it!
For a look at The Tides Foundation, visit
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/225
You know, I don't know why she dislikes that name.
If I had a wife like Terry Kerry, I'd consider commitin' Hari Kari!
Kerry--the Trophy Husband.
I prefer Heinz-Married; doesn't matter who she marries after Heinz, she's not giving up that influential name for anybody.
Can't let these enemies in the White House.
Decidedly to the right of Kerry. But then again so are all the other Senators.
Regards, Ivan
A trophy husband?
Ha! I'd like to see him stuffed and mounted! *L*
Mary Teri Kerry, now that's scary! So let's not tarry, of her be wary. Things could get hairy with that liberal canary testing all of our man berries to see if we're fairies come this November.
Can anyone tell me what John Kerry's ethnic roots are? All the Irish people I know think he is Irish.I say he has no Irish blood at all.I know he is part Jewish but the rest is rather vague to me.
As if we needed anymore info on who the "Foreing leader's" were that wanted Kerry elected.
Another fruit loop with money in the dimocrat corral.
Scary Terry Kerry knew well how to Marry
English. Forbes (his middle name) is not Irish. I don't think he has a drop of Irish in him.
Now that is ONE fugly trophy!
The more America is exposed to this woman, the more recoil from the Kerry Campaign will be realized.
Watch and see if a "Tay Raise Ahhhhh" moment doesn't seriously undermine the Kerry/Edwards ticket before all is said and done.
Like all pampered elites, Tay Raise Ahhhhh doesn't consider what she is thinking before she spews it for public consumption. When you spend several decades surrounded by "the help" which for obvious reasons says "yes" to everything you verbalize, no matter how insane....you begin to think thats the "reality".
It isn't. Ask Leona Helmsley. Ask Martha Stewart. Ask Marc Rich, Ken Lay, or a host of others.
And the great thing is, Tay Raise Ahhhhh will implode without any prodding by the GOP or Bush Campaign, just like Howard Dean.
Its coming......
Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry = Gravy Train
You can browse the American Conservative Union's archives here. Scroll down to the link which says "click here for archived ratings prior to 1999."
I think it would be fair to call the late Senator Heinz a RINO, although far from the most objectionable one. His ACU ratings, from what I saw (I didn't look at every year of his tenure, as the data retrieval system is rather tedious), tended to be around 50. With the obvious caveat that a rating of, say, 55 in 1980 doesn't necessarily translate to a rating of 55 in 2003, some comparative information can be gathered.
One thing that jumped out at me was that there were a bunch of RINOs back then. And not just squishy moderates, either. There were quite a few nominal Republicans who regularly scored ratings in the 20s and 30s -- Weiker (CT), Hatfield (OR), Chafee (RI), Stafford (VT), to name a few; and even a few who were outright liberals by any reasonable definition, sometimes scoring in the single digits on ACU's scale -- Javits (NY) and Mathais (MD), notably.
They were founded in 1937.
They may be a "communist front" for all I know, but they are far from a creation of the Cold War Era.
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Did you see this goldmine ..??
John Kerry is 50% Jewish by blood on his father's side. His grandfather, Friedrich "Fritz" Kohn, converted to Catholicism in 1901 because of rampant anti-Semitism in what is now know as the Czech Republic. The brother of Fritz, Otto, had converted 5 years earlier and taken the name 'Kerry' because, alledgedly, he dropped a pencil on a map and it landed on County Kerry, Ireland. So Fritz took the name too.
Proving that when you aim low, you can achieve your goal.
I don't remember the specific issues of the day, but when he was running for Congress I got a flyer in the mail from his campaign. His views were highly logical and reasonable from my somewhat Conservative point of view, that I remember. At the time it looked like he had the stuff to be President. He also has this fox of a wife, lucky SOB.
Overlooked it- thanks for the ping!
Bookmarked, and bttt!!!
Maybe we should all be more investigative before we pass judgement; hence, that could be an "urban legend" and it may be actually falsified. Here's a response from About.com on that matter:
Netlore Archive: Email flier falsely alleges that Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress to the Heinz catsup fortune and wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, contributes money to radical left-wing political causes
Description: Email flier
Circulating since: March 2004
Status: Largely false
Analysis: See below
Email example contributed by Rich C., 31 March 2004:
Catsup, Pickles, and the Radical Left
by Paul R. Hollrah - [wrote the original "info"]
Comments: With the general election only a few months away, 'tis the season for partisan attacks on presidential candidates — and their wives too, evidently.
The first half of the above article on Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic contender John Kerry and heiress to the Heinz family fortune, accurately recounts some of the salient facts of her biography.
The second half, alleging that Mrs. Kerry has used her vast wealth to support radical causes through donations to an organization called the Tides Foundation, is false.
While it is a fact that the Heinz Endowments, of which Teresa Heinz Kerry is the chairman, granted a total of $230,000 (nowhere close to the $4 million specified above) to the Tides Foundation between 1994 and 1998 to support high school career programs and environmental protection measures in Pittsburgh (see complete list of grants), it is not true that those funds were shared by any of the many other causes and organizations underwritten by Tides.
From a statement by Heinz Endowments President Maxwell King:
First, by legally binding contract, every penny of Heinz’s support to Tides has been explicitly directed to specific projects in Pennsylvania. It cannot legally be redirected and is the exact opposite of fungible.
Second, the Tides Center is a provider of management and administrative services, and we have used it only for those services, not to advance Tides’ grantmaking agenda. Foundations from all across the country-many, like Heinz, with strong centrist agendas-use these services to incubate an array of nonprofit programs. So does the federal government. It is no more accurate to suggest that Heinz supports every one of these programs than it is to suggest that someone who contributes to a specific group through the United Way supports the agenda of every other United Way beneficiary.
Third, the projects we have supported through Tides speak for themselves. They include programs to test the career readiness of area high school students, protect Pittsburgh’s environment and retain young people in our region-hardly an extremist agenda.
Fourth and finally, information about every one of our Tides-related grants is and always has been readily available in our public filings, annual reports and here on our web site. Far from being secretive, we have been consistently open in detailing the nature of our grants to Tides and every other organization we fund.
Email This Article
Sources and further reading:
The Truth About Heinz and Tides
Statement from Heinz Endowments President Maxwell King
Complete List of Heinz Endowments Grants to Tides
And the projects supported by these grants (.PDF file)
Tides Foundation/Tides Center Respond to Recent Inaccuracies in the Media
Press release, 10 March 2004
Right Zooms in on Heinz Grants
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7 March 2004
The Americanization of Teresa Heinz Kerry
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 25 April 2004
Teresa Heinz Kerry Defines Herself
Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 March 2004
Last updated: 07/12/04
Vietnamese
Can anyone tell me what John Kerry's ethnic roots are?
Vietnamese
This won't be published as it's untrue.
See: http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/tides.asp
Sadly, the folks at activistcash.com are loose with the facts. Too bad, because it gives good conservative causes a bad name via the guilt by association.
Asking as I do not know.......who is and why does snopes.com's version invalidate this one ?
BTTT
It doesn't - in things political, snopes leans left. They' accept whatever is said by a liberal group without a lot of questioning.
I suspect snopes is not impartial at all with regards to their version of "facts & truth"............
Hope yer well FB !........Stay safe !
devolve pointed this out; said snopes run by leftist couple with biased filter; uses site to advance agenda.
Another example is capitolhillblue and Doug Thompson aka Terrence Wilkinson.
I suspected as much..........Thanks for the info.
Stay safe !
• Correct
• snopes.com is a stealth liberal front Kohn-job
• "capitalhillblue" also published deliberate lies that Nancy Reagan has said she is against GW Bush and his re-election this November.
• Nancy Reagan*s staff has refuted this as leftist propaganda pushed by liberal media doing the bidding of Kerry & Ko. and the DNC.
• Nancy Reagan believes GW Bush is America*s only choice and that the Kerry/Edwards ticket is 100% against the philsophy and ideals and beliefs of President Ronal Wilson Reagan.
Thanks for the ping!
If the way he's been keeping his hands all over his running mate is any indication, he's probably already been down that "highway".....LOL!
Great Job!
Beware of any newbee or oldtimer trying to derail an argument/thread condemning a lefty!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/968235/posts
Online Rumor Mill Spins Its Own Myth(Snopes.com's leftwing bias undercuts its credibility)
Insight ^ | 8/21/03(originally 3/11/02) | John Berlau
Posted on 08/21/2003 4:23:10 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
The uncertain times after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have given rise to all sorts of rumors. E-mails have circulated about malls that will be attacked on Halloween, about Osama bin Laden being spotted in Utah and Oliver North having warned about bin Laden at the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987. None of these turned out to be true and quickly were debunked on Internet sites devoted to "urban legends."
The most prominent of these is Snopes.com, a Website started in 1995 as a hobby by David and Barbara Mikkelson, respectively a Web programmer and housewife in the Los Angeles area. The site flags rumors with red, green or yellow lights to indicate whether the rumor is false, true or uncertain. The Mikkelsons say the site was getting 2 million "hits" per day just after the 9/11 attacks. Increasingly the establishment media are promoting Snopes as an unbiased arbiter. The site has been featured on ABC's 20/20, as well as articles in Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, which said "Snopes.com offers more background information and definitive answers on the veracity of popular rumors than any other site we looked at."
Snopes, which features the status of about 100 war-related rumors, did help to quell baseless stories about Arab-Americans cheering the attacks at a Dunkin' Donuts and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad being involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. It also has good information on some older urban legends such as alligators in city sewers. But some observers say the site is colored by a liberal political bias and that the Mikkelsons have been too quick to label politically incorrect news stories as urban legends.
For instance, in October, Snopes listed as false the claim, in its own words, that "several [Internet] domain names related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on America were registered before the attack." CNSNews.com, a news site affiliated with the conservative Media Research Center, had reported in an article by Jeff Johnson that at least 17 domain names such as "worldtradetowerstrike.com," "attackontwintowers.com" and "wterrorattack2001.com" had been registered prior to the attack, some as early as July 2000. The Mikkelsons wrote that "this is a nothing story, promulgated by those looking for something sensational to write about."
They dismissed any notion the sites could be related to the terrorist attacks, declaring: "Given the prominence of New York, the prevalence of violence and horror in our popular entertainment, the millions of domain names registered over the years and the fact that the World Trade Center had already been attacked in 1993 [in the bombing that killed six people], that a handful of expired domain names used one or more of these elements should be no surprise."
But Snopes left out many facts included in the CNSNews piece that may have given the article more credibility. For one thing, the belief that these sites may have been related to the attacks was not mere speculation on the reporter's part, but the view of renowned terrorism expert Neil Livingstone, chief executive officer of the Washington-based counterterrorism and investigation company Global Options LLC. "This wasn't just some man off the street," says Johnson, CNSNews congressional bureau chief. Livingstone has written on terrorism for the New York Times and Washington Post and appeared on Nightline and Meet the Press.
Livingstone was quoted in the article as saying that terrorists like to take credit for their work and might have wanted to set up Websites for a propaganda campaign when they didn't know how successful the attacks would be. Johnson noted that bin Laden says on one of his videotapes that even he didn't think the strikes would be so successful. One of the main points of the article was Livingstone's outrage that the registration companies apparently didn't report the domain names to the FBI.
Snopes made much of the fact that the few date-related domain names did not refer to Sept. 11, but to Aug. 11 and Sept. 29. However, CNSNews had paraphrased Livingstone as saying these two dates "may have indicated the window of opportunity during which the attackers planned to strike."
CNSNews executive editor Scott Hogenson also says that Snopes mischaracterized the article as saying the sites were related to the terrorist attack when the story only raised the question of whether they might have been related to the attack. He tells Insight he e-mailed the Mikkelsons three times to correct the record and never received a reply. "They got it wrong, and they didn't even have the ethical fortitude to respond to detailed, accurate, polite queries. I think that's just low class," Hogenson says.
In a telephone interview with Insight, Barbara Mikkelson saw no need to change the status of the CNSNews report from "false" to "undetermined" or to include Livingstone's comments. "I don't know the man, and I don't know his credentials," she says. "Just because somebody's a known terrorism expert does not necessarily mean he will be right about everything."
As for not getting back to CNSNews, she says, "I don't recall it, and I will point out that we get hundreds of e-mails every day and there are just the two of us." Hogenson responds, "If they don't have time to correct their own mistakes, maybe they should not be in the business of trying to correct others." (When Insight used the e-mail link on the Snopes site to arrange its interview, Barbara Mikkelson got back to us within a day.)
Snopes also classifies as false the claim that "monies given to the September 11 Fund are being used to defend suspected terrorists." That is not actually what critics of the fund, such as the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), have said. They objected to a $171,000 grant the September 11 Fund gave to the New York Legal Aid Society, which defended eight detainees rounded up for visa violations in connection with the terrorist attacks. Snopes calls the NLPC's objections "foolheaded," and cites the legal-aid society's statement in a press release that none of the grant money was used to defend terrorist suspects.
"The money was used for civil legal assistance for families affected by the tragedy who needed help getting access to wills, bank accounts and insurance," the Mikkelsons wrote.
But NLPC President Peter Flaherty says Snopes should know very well that such money is fungible. "They use the same office space. They use the same phones. They use the same staff," Flaherty tells Insight. "It is by no means an urban legend; it's a serious issue." Flaherty says that most people who contributed to benefit the families of victims do no want funds going to agencies that might be defending the perpetrators. "This group obviously has a political, left-wing, anti-American agenda. What is the September 11 Fund doing providing assistance to them for any purpose?" he asks.
Even before it gained prominence with the World Trade Center attacks, Snopes had critics who accused it of cavalierly dismissing legitimate stories critical of the left as urban legends. This seemed particularly true with stories about Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Snopes got into a tussle with WorldNetDaily.com by listing as false an August 2000 story by Geoff Metcalf that Bill Clinton planned to go to Vietnam and that the Vietnamese flag would be raised above the American flag on a U.S. Navy ship. "Nothing that was described in the article actually happened, other than the trip to Vietnam," the Mikkelsons wrote just after Clinton arrived in Vietnam in November 2000. "No U.S. Navy ship flew an American flag subordinate to a Vietnamese flag," their Website said.
But Metcalf tells Insight the Clinton administration probably abandoned the flag protocol after the story created a public outrage. "According to people in the Navy, one of the reasons it didn't happen was because of the whole flag-flap ****storm that I created with the series of stories," Metcalf says. He cited Navy sources in the story, but said they didn't want to be identified in a story critical of the commander in chief. He later quoted Allan Fields, chief justice of the Marshall Islands Supreme Court, as saying that he, too, heard about the plans to lower the flag from high-ranking Navy officials on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Like CNSNews' Hogenson, Metcalf says he e-mailed Snopes three times, asking that the status of the account at least be changed to "undetermined" but received no response from the Mikkelsons.
Barbara Mikkelson tells Insight that, despite the fact that this was the first story to reveal the trip to Vietnam, she will continue to list it as false because Metcalf used anonymous sources. "He never identified the person who had supposedly said, 'This is true, because I saw the paperwork for it,'" she says. "The best he could offer was a name of someone who said, 'I heard that.'"
Yet Snopes seems to have different standards in evaluating stories involving conservatives. Take a bizarre new rumor asserting that Attorney General John Ashcroft believes that calico cats are a sign of the devil. This claim was first made in November by liberal financial writer Andrew Tobias, the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, on his Website (andrewtobias.com). To say the least, Tobias was vague about his sources, writing only that "I got this odd story from someone who was definitely in a position to know and then confirmed it with someone else, also in a position to know." Given the stringent Mikkelson standards about anonymous sources in evaluating Metcalf's story, one would have expected them to classify the preposterous Tobias story as false. Instead, they labeled it undetermined. "What the game is here — if indeed there is one — we can't fathom," they wrote of the silly Tobias smear of Ashcroft, a cum laude graduate of Yale with a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
To be sure, Snopes has quelled some rumors about President George W. Bush, such as the one about him having the lowest IQ of modern presidents. But it has split hairs trying to protect Clinton and Al Gore. For instance, Snopes flags the claim that Gore said he "invented" the Internet as false, and signaled it with a red light. The reason given is that Gore actually said he "took the initiative in creating the Internet." Never mind that many dictionaries and thesauruses list the words "invent" and "create" as synonyms. Snopes also lists as false the claim that "the Clinton administration failed to track down the perpetrators of several terrorist attacks against Americans." The Mikkelsons echo the dubious claim by Clinton's defenders that the missile strike in Afghanistan in 1998, widely thought to have been launched to distract the public from the Monica Lewinsky affair, reportedly "missed bin Laden by a few hours" and cite a Washington Post story claiming that the federal antiterrorism budget tripled to $6.7 billion on Clinton's watch.
But the biggest criticism Snopes has attracted for defending the Clintons involves Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and the Black Panthers. Differing sharply from news and historical accounts, and even from another urban-legends Website, TruthOrFiction.com, Snopes maintains that it is false that "Hillary Clinton played a significant role in defending Black Panthers accused of torturing and murdering Alex Rackley."
The Mikkelsons call a 2000 Insight piece by John Elvin detailing Clinton's role as a Yale law student in supporting the Black Panthers on trial for brutally murdering Rackley, a fellow Panther (see "Hillary Hides Her Panther Fling," July 31, 2000), a "woefully bad piece of 'journalism.'" According to Snopes, "the sum total of her involvement in the trial was that she assisted the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] in monitoring the trial for civil-rights violations."
In the interview with Insight, Mikkelson wonders how anyone could object to Hillary's effort on behalf of the Panthers. "She was working with the ACLU, which is what any smart law student would do," she says. When Insight points out to her that many believe some elements of the ACLU have a left-wing agenda, she replies, "There are some people who disagree with the Easter Bunny, too."
Shaky analogies aside, Hillary did more than simply compile reports. According to The First Partner, the authoritative biography by Joyce Milton, Hillary organized the students monitoring the trial, and the students "worked closely with the Panthers' lead attorney, Charles Garry." Based on the students' observations, Garry "raised a multitude of issues about the allegedly unfair treatment of his clients, which ranged from the trivial to the bizarre," Milton wrote. This strategy was ultimately successful in keeping two of the Panthers from being convicted.
Clinton later interned in Oakland for Panther lawyer Robert Treuhaft, an avowed Communist. "Anybody who leaves you with the impression that Hillary did not participate in support of the Black Panthers at the trial is not presenting an accurate impression," says Rich Buhler, operator of TruthOrFiction.com.
But Clinton was not just involved in the Panthers' legal defense. She was serving as a key editor of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action when the review published its fall 1970 issue defending the Panthers. Included in the issue were drawings of policemen as pigs, with one pig decapitated and the accompanying caption, "Seize the time." Again, the Mikkelsons put the best spin on this, writing that "no one has demonstrated that she approved (or even knew) of it." Besides, Mikkelson tells Insight, depicting the police as pigs is no big deal. "Were policemen never referred to as pigs before at colleges?" she asks.
Insight's Elvin laughs that those interested in separating rumor from fact must be at least as skeptical of Snopes as they are of urban legends in circulating e-mails. "It's obvious that they're agenda-driven," Elvin says. "The credibility that they've established is based on the laziness of reporters who have used them as a source." The NLPC's Flaherty, who also researched the Panther story when writing his biography of Hillary Clinton, The First Lady, reaches a similar conclusion. "It sounds to me like they're starting their own urban legends," he says.
John Berlau is a writer for Insight.
In fact we probably have a troll here. One of the Moby Digital Fast Response Brownshirt Team as describe by Richard Poe
Thanks for your reply re the libs who run Snopes.com as a way to detract conservatives from finding out the truth.
You might find he was a Moderate Conservative. Like Bush. John Heinz could have been President.
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