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Citing a longstanding battle with upper management over journalistic practices at their Bangor TV stations, news co-anchors Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio announced their resignations at the end of Tuesday’s 6 p.m. newscast. Michaels and Consiglio, who have a combined 12½ years’ service at WVII (Channel 7) and sister station WFVX (Channel 22), shocked staff members and viewers with their joint resignations Tuesday evening. “I just wanted to know that I was doing the best job I could and was being honest and ethical as a journalist, and I thought there were times when I wasn’t able to do that,”...

"Shove it!" That's the shocking kiss-off that Rhode Island's Democratic candidate for governor gave President Obama yesterday when he found out the campaigner-in-chief wouldn't be endorsing him. "He can take his endorsement and really shove it," a furious Frank Caprio said in a radio interview just hours before Obama touched down in Rhode Island to fund-raise and campaign for congressional hopefuls there. After his campaign said last week that Caprio would be honored to have Obama's backing, the Democrat was singing a different tune yesterday. "What I'm saying to President Obama very clearly is, I'll wear as a badge of...

One of the stories coming out of CPAC this year is the embrace of the tea party movement not by the Republican Party, but by the conservative movement. The issues of spending and smaller government are shared across the board. But while conservatives are embracing the tea party movement, Republican Senators continue castigating tea party activists and hoping they shut up and go away. The latest is Senator Orin Hatch who is petrified that tea party activists might elect Mike Lee and defeat Bob Bennett in Utah. The Hill reports: Speaking to constituents at a town hall, Hatch warned Tea...

Rick Perry just stated on Mark Davis' show that Texas may use the 10th Amendment to reject Obamacare. Go Rick.

RAWFORD, Texas (AFP) – Saudi King Abdullah told US President George W. Bush by telephone on Saturday that major countries must take action to halt Israel's attacks on Gaza, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe had said earlier that the king had called Bush, who was preparing to usher in 2009 on his Texas ranch, to discuss "the Middle East" and had declined to offer further details.

[...] The Pickens Plan, which could be overly ambitious in this financial crisis, calls for a conversion from oil products to natural gas in vehicles, first by phasing in two million new heavy trucks - roughly the entire fleet of big rigs that move goods around the country. Trucks account for about a quarter of the amount of oil we import every year. "If you don't buy into natural gas, you're not buying into the Pickens Plan as a bridge to the future?" Rose asks. "That's right," Pickens agrees. "Anybody, whether it's Sarah Palin or George Bush or John McCain,...

The Observer finds that Teresa Heinz Kerry appears to believe that the results in Ohio in 2004 are illegitimate: This convention, Ms. Heinz Kerry said, is “full of meaning and full of opportunity, and if you, as I, believe, and I know a lot of you do, we did not lose the last election, nor did Al Gore lose his last election. We won it.” While many Democrats remain angry about conflicts over voter registration and the provision of voting machines, in particular, fewer believe that those provided the margin of victory, or that Kerry was robbed of victory the...

Coming up on The Factor - both of them!

Hundreds gather in Oakland to discuss how to get U.S. troops home - OAKLAND -- Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn was the star attraction at a town-hall meeting in Oakland today where hundreds of people gathered to denounce the war in Iraq and call for an immediate withdraw of American troops. Neither Penn nor Rep. Barbara Lee, the Oakland Democrat who has opposed the war since before it began four years ago, offered much in the way of specifics for ending the war, and they were largely preaching to the choir. The enthusiastic, and occasionally boisterous, crowd of 800 or so...

U.S. Democratic Senator from Boston, John Kerry, left, and his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry attend a plenary entitled 'Muslim Societies in the Modern World' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday Jan. 26, 2006. The second day of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting

A campaign convenience is no more. Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband... Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several other references.

NOVAK: Isn’t that the decline of values in language that is… that is poisoning America?

Following is a release from the Democratic National Committee: If You Can't Stand The Heat...That's Bull---t! After Robert Novak used vulgar language on live television and stormed out of CNN's studio yesterday, CNN called the action "inexcusable and unacceptable" and suspended him indefinitely. The suspension comes after prolonged pressure on Novak, who is at the center of a federal probe into the leaking of a CIA officer's identity. Novak got up and left the show before CNN anchor Ed Henry could ask him questions about his role in the growing scandal that has involved top White House officials, including Bush...

MIDI - BELGIUM NATIONAL ANTHEM Hey, stinking Belgium, you're useless as can be, can be Stinking Belgium, we mock your history In the whole world there are few who are more spineless You're competing with Frenchmen, most agree Stinking Belgium, we had saved your rear end But you scum conveniently forgot We do not like when you attack our president So down in hell you guys can rot Now, stinking Belgium, ever stinking Belgium We're gonna give you the big ZOT Hey, eunuchs, do not ask for help We're gonna give you the big ZOT

Teresa Heinz Blames the Media Making what she called her "first real speech" since her husband lost the presidential election, Teresa Heinz blamed the media for distorting their position on the environment. Addressing Stanford University's "Whole Earth Symposium" last week, the first lady wannabe said that the press was largely responsible for the perception that her husband ignored the environment during the 2004 campaign, according to the campus newspaper, the Stanford Report. She insisted that John Kerry discussed energy issues every day and claimed that she frequently talked about "sustainability." But their comments were not reported. What did get covered...

<p>I have wanted to do this song for a long time and finally got the inspiration. The best of our best are shedding blood to make people free. Our detractors need to STFU!</p>

(cut and paste this URL if the link below is broken) -- http://www.garyrog.50megs.com/xmas.html MIDI - PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS The White House door is locked up tight Ta-Ray-Za thinks that she'll break in tonight When suddenly she sees some men with great big guns That she's been drinking's very clear Her loser husband never calls her dear She's screaming SHOVE IT it everywhere It's so much fun Hear as she blathers...now a crowd gathers She claims she should live in there Dubya she's trashing...then she starts flashing All the kids are getting scared "I'm an elitist...Bush did not beat...

Hungarian-born American billionaire investor and philantrope, the President of the Open Society Institute George Soros, left, shows the Grand Cross of the Order of the Republic of Hungary after he received it from Hungarian President Ferenc Madl, right, in the presidential palace in Budapest on Friday, Nov. 5, 2004. Soros was awarded for his support during the democratic transition in Hungary in the last two decades. (AP Photo/MTI, Imre Foeldi)

MIDI - CRYING (scroll down the list to find it) The exit polls had looked great...I bet Rove was irate 4 more years, I think not...Kerry had been red hot George Bush fills me with such hate Things were going well, then they went to hell And I've been crying endlessly...crying endlessly Oh, I had such hope...now I'm feeling like a dope And I keep crying, crying, crying, crying Don't people understand...red states all should be banned I keep on crying I thought that this would be our year...MTV made clear P. Diddy was my guy...he said vote or...

Coming in Newsweek soon: Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, presented a host of behind-the-scenes drama for Kerry. Early on, the campaign staff regarded Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady." Kerry's first campaign manager, James Jordan, had little patience for her strong opinions, sending emails trashing the candidate's wife...which inevitably reached his rivals within the campaign, including Bob Shrum (an old Teresa friend) and helped seal Jordan's eventual dismissal. One of the reasons I began to suspect Bush would...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry said Friday that while President Bush doesn't understand the struggles of American women to make ends meet and fill their demanding roles, he does, and he'll ease their burdens as president. Kerry made the sweeping appeal to women before an audience of about 1,000 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, seeking to improve his standing among women voters who, in polling to date, have been supporting Bush in numbers that bode well for the Republicans and worry Democrats. Kerry said women still are paid 76 cents for every dollar men are paid, and promised that,...

The ever-colorful Teresa Heinz Kerry, whose ``shove it'' comment to a journalist made headlines earlier this year, says some of the words she chooses may be inappropriate because English is her second language.      ``My intent and my expression is real, but the actual use of the words may be out of place,'' she said on the daytime talk show ``The View.''      Heinz Kerry is a native of Mozambique, where Portuguese is the official language.      But the potential first lady said she does not regret anything she's said this campaign season. ``I have not said very much at all except people...

Sung to the tune of "Beat It" My name's Teresa and I'm richer than God I'm a loose cannon, I'm a lightning rod So vote for John or you're a crazy dirtwad And shove it - just shove it! My second husband really knows how to talk When he's elected all the lame will walk. So vote for Johnny now and if you dare balk Then shove it - just shove it! Chorus Shove it, shove it! I should have stayed above it! I'm sick of scumbags and the fast food joints Can't stand those idiots with their talking points...

Kerry Demands Sinclair Stop Film or Give Equal Time An angry and worried John Kerry claims Sinclair Broadcasting will violate federal broadcasting rules if it shows the documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal." In a letter released Friday the Kerry campaign made clear it wants to stop the film from being broadcast on television. If it does air the documentary, Kerry is demanding the station group give his campaign equal time. The Kerry letter comes on the heels of the FCC's announcement Thursday they would not accede to the request of Democratic senators who demanded the commission stop the...

Pour La Release Immediateness DATELINE VERSAILLES: One day after Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq, les tout France from Paris Nord to Versailles came to a halt to honor the surprise visit of Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry to this sleepy Parisian suburb and former home of the Ancien Regime (AKA "Kings and Queens of France"). Arriving on the personal jet that is not owned by her but by her family, Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry (or Mrs. Teresa Kerry-Heinz as she prefers to be known in Europe), was quick to make her way to Versailles II in order to...

A KDUM Exclusive POSTED: 9:55 pm EDT September 26, 2004 In un-American fashion, the First Lady, Mrs. Bush glared at a reporter and told him to "shove it". Completely bewildered by the comment, Michael Gearnsly turned away and left the room feeling the complete lack of understanding demonstrated by Mrs. Bush. The Republicans have been very successful as of late in creating momentum, but this story will soon be picked-up across the country, a certain atrocity considering the upcoming debate.

The First Lady of the United States has always stood as a role model and an icon in American culture. She is a representative of the United States of America around the world. The First Lady is in the public eye and under public scrutiny from the beginning of her husband's campaign. She remains a public figure until her death. Feminists abhor the image of the First Lady as a June Cleaver type woman. They say that the current impression of the First Lady is a "plastic" woman who trots after her husband. Despite this, most people prefer that the...

I was at Teresa's townhall health care meeting in Las Cruces, New Mexico today. She got side tracked by a question regarding veterans benefits and went on a tangent about the Iraq war. She dared to insinuate that the draft would be reinstated, what a crock. She also claimed that there were 30,000 latinos serving in the armed forces that were not even U.S. citizens, could this be true? By this time I was about to pass out from the overwhelming stench of liberal bullshit, but I could have sworn she drew paralells between National Guard service and the system...

Well, that takes care of that swing state.

NEW YORK (AP) - They say that opposites attract, and in the case of Sen. John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, that may be true - at least in their public personas. While the Democratic presidential nominee has a reputation for being aloof and serious, his wife is perceived as the exact opposite. She can be downright playful in public - dancing or laughing or poking fun at her husband as if he's her straight man. Such as last weekend, when her husband told reporters he was going to spend a Sunday at home working. Heinz Kerry quipped that he...

He's going to reply to Bush's UN speech!

NEW YORK -- They say that opposites attract, and in the case of Sen. John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, that may be true -- at least in their public personas. While the Democratic presidential nominee has a reputation for being aloof and serious, his wife is perceived as the exact opposite. She can be downright playful in public -- dancing or laughing or poking fun at her husband as if he's her straight man. Such as this weekend, when her husband told reporters he was going to spend a Sunday at home working. Heinz Kerry quipped that he has...

MIDI - GOT TO GET A MESSAGE TO YOU A loony woman's running around And she's been saying things that are very profound Our first lady she's wanting to be I'm afraid that's something I do not want to see She has got a special message for you Just shove it...just shove it You are scumbags and idiots, too Just shove it...just shove it Would she be as bad as Hillary I can't wait to hear her shout out you're an FJB! Condescension that she has is rare With her traitorous husband they make quite a pair She has...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), said that President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s policies have taken educational and health care opportunities from US Latinos as they grew poorer. She said that under the Bush administration about 50 percent of Hispanic students have been unable to finish high school and that one out of three Latinos lacks health insurance. "The price of this president's failed health care policies is paid in the coin of human suffering, and for Latinos, that price is far too high," Teresa Heinz...

Advisory: Teresa Heinz Kerry will visit Pennsylvania on Tuesday (9/14) to hold discussions on the rising costs of health care. She will discuss the Kerry-Edwards health care plan to expand access to affordable health care and bring down costs for families and businesses. Mrs. Heinz Kerry will begin in Erie and then travel to Scranton for a similar event Tuesday afternoon. Health care issues, particularly the rising cost of prescription drugs, have been a key part of Mrs. Heinz Kerry's philanthropic work. She has led efforts to explore different approaches to these challenges and brings this knowledge and experience to...

Teresa Heinz Kerry says "only an idiot" would fail to support her husband's health care plan. But Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, told the (Lancaster) Intelligencer Journal that "of course, there are idiots." Kerry's proposal includes health care subsidies for children, the unemployed, small companies and more; and government assistance to insurers and employers that keep premiums for workers down. If Kerry is elected, Heinz Kerry predicts that opponents of his health care plan will be voted out of office. She says, "Only an idiot wouldn't like this." Heinz Kerry stumped in Lancaster, Harrisburg and...

To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Chad Clanton or Phil Singer, _________, both of Kerry-Edwards 2004 WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to today's outrageous attacks on John Kerry's service by Karl Rove, former Georgia Senator Max Cleland and former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey made the following statements Senator Max Cleland: "Karl Rove was behind it all, it's part of his smear campaign to tarnish to tarnish the records and service of Vietnam Veterans, and now he's doing it again. I find it interesting that three different people have had to resign from basically the Bush Campaign and...

I enjoy this forum, but lately I've noticed a troubling tendency for posters here to descend into horrible and immature name-calling. Such name-calling, and extremism without reason does nothing but harm our cause. It turns off casual lurkers and readers of this forum. It provides fodder for this forum to be demonized and non-respected elsewhere. Below I provide a few examples. I call on Freepers to stop using such terms voluntarily. If that doesn't work, I call on the moderators to warn, if not censor, posters who use such terms. I realize that Democratic Underground uses even more ridiculous terms...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry's son said his mother was talking about "things like voter suppression" when she told Pennsylvania delegates to the Democratic National Convention last month that "un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits" were creeping into American politics. "Un-American traits are things like voter suppression, lying about people and their records," Chris Heinz said. "It's been happening in American politics for years; it's not just Bush-Cheney, but they are a big part of it. "They have spent $90 million to lie about my stepfather's record, to try to pretend that being complicated and smart is a problem....

“Shove It” An Ode to John Kerry, to the tune of 'Beat It' (First Verse) Your have the initials of the first JFK, But he didn’t need a butler for his PBJ, TerRAYzuh really nails it, and her words are really clear, So shove it, just shove it (Second Verse) You had to run, you flip flop like no one else can, You said you shed your blood over in Vietnam, But what about the Senate, you never did squat, So shove it, just shove it (Chorus) Just shove it, shove it, shove it, Dubya's gonna really beat you, Raising...

Trib-Review staffer McNickle's note to colleagues 8/12/2004 3:57:47 PM From: [Colin McNickle] Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:33:37 -0400 To: [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newsroom] Subject: Thank you, from Boston All, I have received words of support and encouragement from folks all over the world after I asked a simple question and Teresa told me to shove it. In the CNN newsroom Monday night, Jeff Greenfield didn't dare say "good job." But I got his wink. The same with Bob Novak, who gave me a hearty thumbs up on CNN's set Monday night. Anderson Cooper, host of CNN's "360," said I surprised...

I came back from vacation raring to gripe about how we in the press conveniently overlook significant details on these catchy little stories we go bonkers over. Details like the roar of the crowd in the Des Moines ballroom where Howard Dean screamed his immortal Scream. Details like a full characterization of the journalist Teresa Heinz Kerry told to "shove it." Then, I discovered just how far behind the curve a blissful few days in the West Virginia mountains can leave you. See, for example, this and this. The Truth behind Shove-it GateKrugman -- Triumph of the Trivial Still, I...

Wednesday August 04, 2004--The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows the race for the White House is tied once again--Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush each attract 46% of the vote.

Thursday, August 5, 2004 TERESA HEINZ KERRY 'Shove it' showed her true colors BY KEN KURSON Ken Kurson is co-author, with Rudolph Giuliani, of "Leadership." July 29, 2004 Since Sunday night I've waited for a single journalist to get this story right, this story of an ugly lie that's been reduced to an adorable quip. I'm referring to the shocking story of a First Wife wannabe lying to a reporter, insulting him and then getting not only a pass but an "attagirl" from a press corps so hungry for any sign of life from the Democrats that they've repackaged the...

MIDI - GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE I had been up, now I am down I didn't know what she was doing Another stop, another speech My chances she is really screwing Ooh, she pretends she's above it Ooh, she tells some guy to shove it I have got to shut up my wife I said I'd run if she'd behave Those are the words that I had told her I thought that things would be okay But every day she's getting bolder Ooh, she pretends she's above it Ooh, she tells some guy to shove it...

The journalist whom Teresa Heinz Kerry told to "shove it" after rejecting a question he asked her after a speech says he has received death threats in the aftermath of the incident. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page editor and columnist Colin McNickle says the reports of the confrontation with the wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry were used by liberals to "demonize not only me but the Trib," he wrote in a column yesterday. Teresa Heinz Kerry As WorldNetDaily reported, in a speech July 25 to her home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention, Heinz Kerry used the term "un-American"...

Before telling a reporter to "shove it" last week, Teresa Heinz Kerry complained that there were "creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits" to the presidential campaign. Few people outside of Wilkes-Barre care much about the epithet "un-Pennsylvanian," but in dropping the "un-American" bomb she highlighted an important truth about today's politics: It is the Democrats who routinely question the GOP's patriotism, not the other way around. This makes for a fascinating stew of cognitive dissonance, transference, and probably odd psychological maladies yet to be identified and labeled. It's not easy to question the patriotism of people you are denouncing for...

NY DAILY NEWS....LLOYD GROVE Just because Teresa Heinz Kerry is a billionaire doesn't mean that she doesn't pinch pennies. I hear that folks at George's Salon in Washington's Four Season Hotel - where Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry's wife gets her nails done - are complaining that the Heinz Ketchup heiress wants the manicurist to service her at home, a few blocks from the luxury hotel in Georgetown, but is balking at the $90 charge. Last week, a Lowdown spy overheard a George's manicurist say that Heinz Kerry has been haggling over the fee for her home manicures - three...

The journalist whom Teresa Heinz Kerry told to "shove it" after rejecting a question he asked her after a speech says he has received death threats in the aftermath of the incident. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page editor and columnist Colin McNickle says the reports of the confrontation with the wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry were used by liberals to "demonize not only me but the Trib," he wrote in a column yesterday. Teresa Heinz Kerry As WorldNetDaily reported, in a speech July 25 to her home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention, Heinz Kerry used the term "un-American"...

Teresa Heinz Kerry's "shove it" phrase to a Pittsburgh editor was the most cited Kerry campaign message in the press last week — mentioned 381 times in American publications, according to Factiva, a Dow Jones/Reuters company that tracks daily press mentions.     But the two words also brought death threats, insults and accusations upon Colin McNickle, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial-page editor who vexed Mrs. Kerry by asking her to explain her claim that "un-American traits" were emerging in politics. [snip]In a Boston Globe interview, singer Patti LaBelle advised Mrs. Kerry to "pimp slap" Mr. McNickle; liberal columnist Molly Ivins suggested he...