Posted on 08/10/2004 7:35:02 PM PDT by Gorilla44
NEXT TIME John Kerry accuses President Bush of misleading the American people, remember Mary Ann Knowles.
Knowles is the Hudson woman whose battle with breast cancer Kerry has turned into a campaign anecdote. Here is what Kerry said about Knowles during his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 29:
“What does it mean when Mary Ann Knowles, a woman with breast cancer I met in New Hampshire, had to keep working day after day right through her chemotherapy, no matter how sick she felt, because she was terrified of losing her family’s health insurance? America can do better. And help is on the way.”
What it means is that John Kerry is fibbing. As Union Leader correspondent Scott Brooks reported on Sunday, Mary Ann Knowles did not have to work through her chemotherapy for fear of losing her health insurance. Employed by Elderhostel, the Boston-based non-profit travel organization for people 55 and older, Mary Ann had 26 weeks of paid disability at her disposal. More was available for a long-term illness. She did not have to work through her chemotherapy. She chose to.
Knowles would have lost some income had she taken the disability leave, said her husband, who is unemployed. But she would not have lost her health insurance, as Kerry has repeatedly misstated.
Asked if the Kerry campaign bothered to get the details of Knowles’ personal story, spokeswoman Judy Reardon said Kerry’s use of the words “every day” in describing Knowles story was “a colloquialism.” She went on: “When a woman has a mastectomy and goes through therapy, I don’t need to double-check on her.”
In other words, Kerry knowingly used the words “every day” when he did not mean “every day,” and he used the phrase: “she still has to go to work every day — just to hang on to their health insurance” when she did not have to work every day and was in no danger of losing her health insurance.
In short, he lied. Repeatedly.
With all that has come to light about Kerry’s voting record and his Vietnam service, his misrepresentation of Marry Ann Knowles’ story should surprise few. Kerry cannot even get his own personal history straight, so how can we expect him to correctly relay someone else’s?
Can these people on the left ever tell the truth about anything? Can't they make their point about insurance without lying?
That's how I was raised LOL
Is there ANYTHING this guy says that's the truth? There's an uncanny and slimy parallel between Kerry and Clinton.
Michael Moore ate it?
Well, yeah, but it could also be used in an exagerated manner, but in that instance it would be "Day in and Day out" ;0)
I believe that the person the Dems nominate is the one who tells the most and the biggest whoppers! It's like tale tells everyday!
John Kerry/John Edwards
"Tell them I'm coming, and Hell is coming with me! Oh, wait a minute. It's just Edwards, never mind."
:-)
The more someone lies, the easier it gets. Just ask Bill Clinton.
Mary Ann Knowles - the Winnebago woman of the 2004 election!
I don't doubt that *L*
Bump!
LOL, great tagline
My thought exactly after reading this story.
The Democrats still, to this day, haven't yet learned that there is a legion of folks, even if in the media, who will eventually dig up the real story, but in any event, the Democrats will still lie, no matter what. This was just tantamount to that Al Gore story of a "little old Grandma having to collect tin cans to pay for her prescription drugs. Living day-to-day on canned dog food" hoax.
It befits that "Republicans are scaring grandma's and forcing them to eat dog food before being shoved off a cliff in their wheelchair" malarkey the Left keeps spinning every now and again.
I could never figure it out. Even when I told a little white lie as a child, my mother would say "don't lie to me now, the truth will eventually come out later!"
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I'll bet Mary Ann didn't want to be dragged into this just for political expedience. Matter of fact, I'll venture at a guess Mary Ann is a registered Republican, since she decided to stay at work rather than risk losing her health benefits.
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