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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: Gorilla44

You mean Kerry lied.


81 posted on 08/10/2004 8:24:09 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Ophiucus

yep. its like al baby has been channeling through sKerry. nuts and loons the whole lot of them.


82 posted on 08/10/2004 8:24:55 PM PDT by suzyq5558 (Sayyyyyy....isnt disingenuous dissembler just a fancy way of saying your a LIAR???)
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To: Howlin

Good GRIEF!


83 posted on 08/10/2004 8:25:20 PM PDT by cyncooper ("We will fear no evil...And we will prevail")
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To: Mo1

Fact: Kerry launched a grenade too close to a store of rice, and received a wound in his left buttock when the stored rice exploded. Two days later, when he received another "wound," he put the two episodes/wounds together as grounds for the purple heart that he was awarded.


84 posted on 08/10/2004 8:26:30 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Howlin; Mo1
Please, dear Lord, smite this man!

Prayers quadrupled for the TRUTH to be known about this liar! That the eyes of Americans would be opened!

85 posted on 08/10/2004 8:26:33 PM PDT by ohioWfan (BUSH 2004 - Leadership, Morality, Integrity)
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To: Howlin

Why? How? Cause his lips were moving?


86 posted on 08/10/2004 8:27:27 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: PhiKapMom


87 posted on 08/10/2004 8:28:45 PM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: Howlin
I've been to New Hampshire; my first husband was from there. I'm pretty sure that "every day" means "every day.".

No decoder ring required for this statment then. Thanks for the clarification. LOL

88 posted on 08/10/2004 8:28:52 PM PDT by AZamericonnie ("Really only two things matter, sex & politics. At least I'm getting politics!")
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To: Gorilla44

There is little doubt: Kaptain Ketchup is an habitual liar.

Kerry would not even be able to recognize the truth, if it jumped up and bit him.


89 posted on 08/10/2004 8:29:22 PM PDT by punster
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To: prairiebreeze

Oh wait. I just can't keep up. I thought all their lies were explained/excused by their usage of 'humor' (Al Franken). I suppose their 'truths' are as 'dynamic' and ever changing as sKerry's stance on any given issue at any given moment is.


90 posted on 08/10/2004 8:31:29 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: Froggie

Interesting that you should mention OUR taxation. I read recently that Heinz-Kerry pays only 7% w/all her tax loop holes.


91 posted on 08/10/2004 8:31:31 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Ophiucus
Maybe John Kerry will claim one of these days that he invented chemotherapy.

Better yet, maybe he'll claim that he invented breast cancer.

92 posted on 08/10/2004 8:31:35 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: Howlin

OMG .. He stole that idea too????


93 posted on 08/10/2004 8:31:35 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: ohioWfan
Please, dear Lord, smite this man!

I can't resist the Jin Carey phrase..."Oh smite me oh might smiter!"

94 posted on 08/10/2004 8:31:56 PM PDT by AZamericonnie ("Really only two things matter, sex & politics. At least I'm getting politics!")
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To: Carolinamom
Interesting that you should mention OUR taxation. I read recently that Heinz-Kerry pays only 7% w/all her tax loop holes.

I hear it was 11%

I also heard that in Massachusetts there is a box you can check if you want to pay higher taxes

I also heard Terri Kerry didn't check it

IF she ever releases her Tax Returns .. we'll find out for sure

95 posted on 08/10/2004 8:34:22 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: Gorilla44

Same Old S***, different year. Re-run from the Rat campaign of 2000.


96 posted on 08/10/2004 8:34:31 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right! (Kerry's speech paraphrased: "I was in Vietnam! I have no plan...but I'm not Bush! Vote for me!")
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To: Toespi

"...enter Hillary..."

Is this the reason Kerry is demonstrating clearly to everyone but the press that he is as weak, as insincere, as stupid, as lacking character, as lying, as non-descript, as sociopathic a candidate as has ever run for president of the United States? Kerry is almost making Dennis K look good...

...Kerry does a self destruct...Hillary to the rescue...what is good for New Jersey is good for the country?


97 posted on 08/10/2004 8:35:22 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: Howlin

98 posted on 08/10/2004 8:38:00 PM PDT by Watery Tart ("If the charges in this book are baseless, it's up to Kerry to disprove them.")
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To: PhiKapMom
Never. Remember the 'Me Too Crew'? (Clinton/Gore)

They're incapable of coming up with anything original and positive of their own, cause they're too focused on their usual power grab/retention, raising taxes (more greed), and socialization of America (more power).

They have way too much on their small little minds to actually come up with original ideas. Besides. Why bother when they can just steal/cheat./copy Rep ideas and pretend that they were the originators? I mean, it's not like the US media is ever going to CALL them on it.
99 posted on 08/10/2004 8:38:57 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: Irish Eyes

OKAY....who's keeping the KERRY LIES LIST???


100 posted on 08/10/2004 8:39:34 PM PDT by goodnesswins (VICTORY...........brings peace.)
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