Posted on 07/27/2004 9:47:41 PM PDT by kattracks
The campaign of Sen. John Kerry yesterday accused NASA of leaking a widely circulated photo that shows the candidate wrapped from top to bottom in a baby blue "bunny suit," implying that it was a "dirty trick."
One campaign official told The Washington Times last night: "All I can say is it was not an authorized release."
But the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told Fox News that the Kerry team saw the photos before publication and passed on their release.
A NASA spokesman told the top-rated cable network that the images were given to the Kerry campaign to review before several were posted on the Kennedy Space Center Web site.
In no way were photographs "leaked," the spokesman said.
But campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said in an interview with Fox, "This was a leaked photo."
She said the campaign never was told that the photographs, which are drawing ridicule and comparison with the Michael Dukakis "tank" photo on the Internet and talk radio, would be taken during a campaign stop at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Ouch!
When I first saw the picture I had the same reaction - I was sure it was a Photoshop job. And they keep telling us this guy is smart?
After that first pitch and Teresa's little freakout, Mary Beth Cahill must be looking for a large bottle of sleeping pills by now, thinking to herself, 'Teddy was a homicidal drunk but even he never dressed up in a bunny suit'.
Hey, I just realized I have two bunny suits just like
the Kewwy Wabbit, but I don't have the hoods.
ANyone know where to purchase them?
I can't wait to FREEP!
I think I have a spare hood.
I wonder how much of a bounce Bush will get from this convention??
One large white, antistatic, pullover type.
Kerry on Mars is good! ;)
LOL! That dpends. The more the voters see Kerry and his lovely wife, the higher...
Money!
LOL... No, but he wore that stinking neck brace for months to prove how seriously injured he was the night he managed to kill Mary Joe.
...and I'll bet that collar cost him a pastle of votes. LOL
You're eeeeeevil...
I actually stole the quote from A CHRISTMAS STORY.
How in the dickens did the author foresee this???
So Kerry was forcibly jammed into that suit while Rove took pictures? Damn this guy is a girlie-man.
Please tell me you have posting privileges there and replied " you could always watch Fox."
Excellent point!!! Yoda would say: Hoist on their own petard, they are.
I worked in one of those bunny suits before, but that's different. I had a legitimate function in a cleanroom environment. Kerry thought this was a great photo-op, I can't understand why though.
As a nitpick, I always had to wear a mask in such an environment, why didn't he? I guess they bent the rules for his photo-op. I'm glad to see this anti-space guy take it in the shorts because of NASA.
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