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Kerry falsifies NH woman's story
Th Union Leader ^ | August 10, 2004

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?


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: kerry; kerryliar; kerrylies; liar; maryannknowles
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To: Howlin

OH DANG! ...


I've had to delete my response about 5 times already


I WISH I could type what I am thinking right now


41 posted on 08/10/2004 8:07:02 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: Carolinamom
And now Edwards is talking about ONE America.

What?????

42 posted on 08/10/2004 8:08:39 PM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: ride the whirlwind
You have to wonder how many more stories like this one are out there, just waiting to be told.

IF the press does their job .. count on a lot more

Kerry couldn't tell the truth .. they WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth if his life depended on it

43 posted on 08/10/2004 8:09:23 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: AZamericonnie

Do you have any idea what she meant by that?


44 posted on 08/10/2004 8:09:26 PM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: Howlin

Do the democrats EVER have a candidate that doesn't lie?


45 posted on 08/10/2004 8:10:06 PM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
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To: Mo1

Just a colloguialism, I guess. Obama had such a good response to HIS one America speech that Edwards stole it...typical. Kerry/Edwards have stolen every Bush slogan and have imitated everything else...including Kerry's wearing a cowboy hat. He's no cowboy, not even a rhinestone one. He's as bad as algore in trying to find a persona that fits, but he won't own up to the ONE that does: a loafer and a liar who will do anything to get what he wants.


46 posted on 08/10/2004 8:10:16 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Gorilla44

bump


47 posted on 08/10/2004 8:11:11 PM PDT by sport
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To: AZamericonnie

Humm!?! Bet you didn't see this in the alphabet media!


48 posted on 08/10/2004 8:11:36 PM PDT by popparollo (Someone knows what you did, LIAR!!!)
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To: McGavin999

Not in my lifetime, which, as we all know, has been "a while," but I am using "a while" as “a colloquialism.”


49 posted on 08/10/2004 8:12:25 PM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: Howlin; Mo1

The Kerry Kamp is making Edwards leave the 2 America's theme because polls show Americans aren't buying it. Rush was talking about this today. Edwards isn't thrilled about abandoning it either, LOLOL!


50 posted on 08/10/2004 8:13:13 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (God bless our coaltion troops.)
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To: Carolinamom

Saw a Kerry/Edwards yard sign today and I thought it was Bush/Cheney. Do the RATs not have an original thought in their pea brains?


51 posted on 08/10/2004 8:13:27 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Oklahoma is Reagan Country and now Bush Country -- Win Another One for the Gipper!)
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To: Gorilla44; Mo1
Kerry lied? I'm stunned. < /sarcasm >
52 posted on 08/10/2004 8:14:08 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: Mo1
John "Apocalypse Now" Kerry ~aka~ (John "Deer Hunter" Kerry) will burn up on reentry into the world of truth
53 posted on 08/10/2004 8:14:13 PM PDT by MJY1288 (John Kerry Says he Would Conduct a More Thoughtful and Sensitive War on Terror)
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To: Howlin

We provincials can use colloquialisms, but they should be beneath sophisticates such as Kerry. /sarcasm


54 posted on 08/10/2004 8:14:57 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Gorilla44

The Rats are a pathetic joke. Nothing surprises me anymore.


55 posted on 08/10/2004 8:15:16 PM PDT by Wolfhound777 (It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
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To: prairiebreeze

The whole Two Americas theme is borrowed from that Book James Carvile wrote "Two Americas"


56 posted on 08/10/2004 8:15:31 PM PDT by MJY1288 (John Kerry Says he Would Conduct a More Thoughtful and Sensitive War on Terror)
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To: Carolinamom
typical. Kerry/Edwards have stolen every Bush slogan and have imitated everything else...including Kerry's wearing a cowboy hat

Did ya hear he hired a black women by the name of Dr. Rice to be his new National Security Advisor??

(New) Kerry Advisor's Disgraceful National Security Record (Dr. Susan Rice)

57 posted on 08/10/2004 8:16:11 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: ride the whirlwind
You have to wonder how many more stories like this one are out there, just waiting to be told.

Just wait until the campaign really gets going in September and October. The Kerry lies have only just begun!

58 posted on 08/10/2004 8:16:23 PM PDT by vox humana
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To: PhiKapMom

Their lack of originality is stunning, isn't it?


59 posted on 08/10/2004 8:16:32 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: prairiebreeze
Edwards isn't thrilled about abandoning it either, LOLOL!

Hey Edwards can always sue Kerry

BTW .. how's his front porches idea coming along .. I haven't heard much about it lately

60 posted on 08/10/2004 8:18:08 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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