Posted on 07/27/2004 6:49:48 PM PDT by Cableguy
BOSTON, July 27 -- The tabloids are painting John F. Kerry as an out-of-this-world figure.
The New York Post's front page Tuesday featured a huge picture of the Democratic presidential nominee-to-be in a blue spacesuit, crawling out of the shuttle Discovery at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Next to the headline ("BOSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM") and a description of Kerry's "ridiculous outfit," Rupert Murdoch's paper ran a smaller shot of Woody Allen dressed as a human sperm from the movie "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask."
The same Kerry photo ran in the Boston Herald, whose front page this week has been devoted to Kerry-bashing, with the story comparing his donning of the "clean suit" to 1988 nominee Michael S. Dukakis's infamous flub of riding around in a tank. (The Herald's banner headline, "TERESA'S TED K TIRADE," spotlighted some remarks that Kerry's wife made in a 1975 book.) The in-your-face pictures landed like a meteor, with cable networks showing them throughout the day.
Kerry spokesman Phil Singer said the candidate was required to wear the suit. "Given the challenges facing our nation today, you'd think these papers could find something better to write about," he said. Campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill, asked by Fox News whether NASA's release of the picture was a dirty trick, said: "Well, what do you think?" No photos were supposed to be taken, she said.
But Kennedy Space Center spokesman Mike Rein said a video was routinely made of Kerry "as we have done for the last 40 years." He said NASA takes such footage because Kerry was in "a very confined and hazardous area" and that the pictures are always made public.
New York Post Editor in Chief Col Allan said he was just having "a bit of fun" before Al Gore, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the convention Monday night. "The candidate as a sperm lasted exactly one edition" on the front page, he said. Asked if he was trying to make Kerry look silly, Allan said: "He needs no help from us."
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no kidding, the town's full of beebers stuned!
push the picture.... get it out there, it really doesn't matter what the Dems say. It is a very damaging picture and Kerry didn't have to pose for it.
They got that one right!
I'm sure this photo would strike fear into the heart of Osama bin Laden and his Merry Madmen.
I think a good caption for this pic would be
"New Internet worm discovered"
I say it is his Hallmark moment, and this puppy has legs like a centipede.
Every speaker at the Girly-man National Convention says John Kerry-Heinz served bravely in Vietnam but didn't he bug out after 4 months?
God Kerry's having a bad week, first the Shove-it gate, then the bunny suit. He may get a convention fall.
Meanwhile Iraq is off the the front pages while the economy continues to grow.
I'm betting on Bush.
The Rats dug this hole. One of the reasons this photo is still being discussed is due to their whining about it. The other reason is this convention has been so stage managed, there is absolutely no suspense. This photo is the most interesting thing to have come out of the convention build-up thus far.
I think John "Send Me Home" Kerry is smiling because he also has a warm feeling. But that's because he just wee'd in his jammies.
W-P is pissed not all papers are lined up for the royal Kerry ass kissing expect of the elite media this week....
If the tabs actually do put this pic on their covers, it will hurt Kerry a lot. I would be willing to bet that LOTS of "undecided" voters along with many lukewarm Rats read the tabs.
So -- did he appear at the Convention in this?? At Cape Canaveral? I couldn't figure out, from the article. And I have NOT been watching... thanks.
Stupid journalist. It's not a SPACESUIT!
...But Kennedy Space Center spokesman Mike Rein said a video was routinely made of Kerry "as we have done for the last 40 years." ...
NASA's been taking video of Kerry for 40 YEARS??
...He said NASA takes such footage because Kerry was in "a very confined and hazardous area" and that the pictures are always made public....
Horse manure! There's no requirement for them to shoot video when someones in a "confined and hazardous area".
They took the photos because he's a VIP and it's good PR for NASA. (I oughta know, I was a photographer there many moons ago.)
Now, considering that the "journalist" goofed about the "spacesuit", I wonder if he got the NASA guy's quote right. NASA's spokespeople are usually smoother than that.
This is the man in whom "Strength and Wisdom are not opposing values".
Right.
He was being wounded at the rate of once every 27 days. They had to get him out to save his life (smirk).
There are an awful lot of riff-raff out there in the audience.
Just imagine that that flex hose coming out of the hatch is a GOP elephant trunk and that goofy smile on Sen. Kerry's face is because of where the GOP elephant's tusk is being rammed. :)
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