You know, I'm proud that the Republicans have never inflicted a hypernated First Lady on this country.
Posted on 07/26/2004 5:50:14 AM PDT by johnny7
BOSTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry had just told Pennsylvania Democrats that she was "unscripted" by nature. Then, she proved it. Minutes after the wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John F. Kerry commented on campaign ads targeting her husband, Heinz Kerry told a journalist to "Shut up. Shove it." The encounter occurred at a reception yesterday at the Massachusetts State House for the Pennsylvania delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Kerry is to formally accept the party's nomination for president Thursday night.
Heinz Kerry, the Pittsburgh billionaire who controls the Heinz family charities, spoke for about 10 minutes to the Pennsylvania delegates. Citing negative ads President Bush's campaign is airing about her husband, she said, "We need to turn back some of the creeping un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics." When Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page editor Colin McNickle asked which un-American activities she was talking about, Heinz Kerry accurately denied that she used the word "activities." Then, despite taped versions of her remarks, she repeatedly denied she had said the word, "un-American." "I didn't say that, I didn't say that word," she told McNickle. An aide rushed her off down a rope line, but Heinz Kerry shoved back past her aide, and leaning forward, shook a finger at McNickle and said, "Shut up. Shove it."
Heinz Kerry has had a long feud with the Tribune-Review and its publisher, conservative activist Richard Mellon Scaife, despite being friends and partners in philanthropy with Scaife's wife, Ritchie. Heinz Kerry's comments to McNickle were made directly to a bank of tape recorders and reporters.
Gov. Ed Rendell, who has also called for a reduction in negative attack ads, stepped forward to defend the comments while aides moved Heinz Kerry away. "This is the same thing I have been talking about. Making politics so negative and vicious turns off voters, turns off young voters, hurts the whole process. That is all she was saying," Rendell said. Pennsylvania Democrats shrugged off the confrontation as a minor sideshow. "People who meet this woman will love this woman when they see her concern for people," said state Rep. Joe Preston, D-Pittsburgh. "She cares about people and that comes through. And people love that she says what she means and means what she says."
Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato, the Democrats' highest-ranking western party leader, said, "none of this personality stuff is going to matter. She's a great lady and addition to our party, but this election, in the west, is going to come down to the economy, the war and health care. That is what people are going to vote for."
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You know, I'm proud that the Republicans have never inflicted a hypernated First Lady on this country.
LOL.
Now we know what happens when Terror-eza rubs elbows with the great unwashed!
I say just let her run wild!
She looked soooo uncomfortable at the Yanks/BoSox game last night...even though my boys lost, it was worth tuning in just to watch her squirm.
Starting to sound like her husband is "hypermated"...
They are playing her "Un-american" statement on the radio, followed by her saying that she never said "Un-american".
She is a hoot.
Just to get off of the insane Mrs. Heinz-Kerry for a second: (1) There is nothing more negative than complaining about negative ads. (2) Those who complain loudest about it are the ones who practice it the most.
the Dim's idea of a first lady.
"Making politics so negative and vicious turns off voters, turns off young voters, hurts the whole process. That is all she was saying,"
Yeah so shove it.
Seriously this was all caught on tape. I saw the whole thing on GMA.
Radio's Michael Savage will have a field day with this one.
Who does she appeal to, the menopausal feminist crowd?
I think she is the scariest one. She has the money and the contacts to turn this country over to the euroweenies. If Kerry is elected, good-bye USA.
Like Klinton, the Heinzwitch has her own definition of certain words......such as civility!
It's all about the left wanting to censor our right of free speech.
You know... the event where they slide in dirt, chew tobacco and give 'high fives'.
Tough to play in in jodhpurs... don't you know!
Hey, give 'er a break! My wife's hard to deal with too when she's having a bad hair day.
The tape is excellent, I agree. But I can't decide if Teresa or Ed Rendell is funnier or more pathetic. His "defense" of her really is one for the record books. He must have absolutely zero shame. He should have gotten out of there pronto....
Y'know, the more I see of her the more I think that she's medicated. Sort of flat affect, doesn't change her facial expressions much, and short-term amnesia. Hmmm....
Watch her claim that she was "on her period" or suffering from PMS. HAHAHAHA! It's too funny watching an insufferable liberal squirm when caught in a lie.
"Let them eat cake" Bump.
"Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato, the Democrats' highest-ranking western party leader, said, "none of this personality stuff is going to matter..."
Un-hunh. Keep telling yourself that. The totally inexperienced and untested Edwards was picked for his grin and hair.
Personality is a big part of the race. I guess billioinaires like Ter-A-za don't have to keep a civil tongue in their mouths when dealing with the peons.
Her insular elitist attitude is impossible to hide espcially for her because of her huge ego and sense of entitlement.
If I had to go with Botox to see the BoSox, I'd be uncomfortable too! What's the deal with their marriage? Why does she look liked she'd rather be anyplace else in the world when he puts his mitts on her in public?
Feisty old broad, ain't she?
Which one, the stiff or the dead one?
Yeah, it's right out of the Clinton playbook.
"And people love that she says what she means and means what she says."
lol, if that's true then why did she say what she said and then blatantly tried to deny that she said what she said?
Deranged philanthropists, marxists, communists, enviro-terrorists, femme-nazi's, lesbians, nihilists, Fabian socialists... and psychotic poets. The backbone of the 'new' Democratic party.
watch it here www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3576476/detail.html
In a story published over the weekend, the writer commented that Kerry spent last week in various sports activities at Tayrazuh's spread on Nantucket and "riding his $8000 bicycle to dinner." Does Tayrayzuh ride too? Or, does he dine without her?
Covered on Drudge, Foxnews. Buried on ABCCBSNBCCNN.
What a First Lady she would be....
Considering that she is well over 60, that would be hard to sell.
How funny --- she thinks her money somehow bought her class --- so she's above everyone and knows how to do a proper political discourse --- yet she proved what she complained about.
Maybe she IS hypernated...she sure seems a mite bamboozled by her own speech.
Well, it didn't look like he has spent much time at games. After he was booed on his way to the mound (will we see that on CBS, ABC< NBC,etc?), he wound up and bounced the ball halfway to home plate.
My my my. The Tides Foundation. A fine, All-American organization.
I suspect that, about now, Teresa is getting more than a little fed up with this whole gig. When she said, "Shove it!" she might have been thinking, "You can take this job and shove it!"
Since the Heinz name has become associated with this America hating feminazi, those Ketchup bottles don't seem to be moving as much. They just sit on the shelves like little red soldiers.
I think that maybe her meds need to be titrated. Until they get the dosage correct, she needs to be muzzled. Wait, no! Let Terayyyza speak!
She's too old to make that claim with any credibility.
Considering the increased influence of spouses, mainly female, on their husbands' thought processes, the Constitution should be amended to forbid the election of a President married to a foreign born wife.
John Heinz wouldn't recognize what his beloved wife has turned into.
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Opps, if Sandy's are around as well the papers alone might burn half of Boston.
The timing of this couldn't be better. Here the Dims are spending millions on their smoke and mirrors charade and little Toto has revealed the hidden truth. Maybe Teddy Kennedy can go up to the podium and admonish the delegates: "Pay no attention to that mad bitch behind the curtain."
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