the bad one...
and the WORSE one...
Posted on 09/20/2004 2:10:50 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee
In an interview of Teresa Heinz Kerry ("The Candidate's Wife," written by Judith Thurman) posted September 20, 2004 at NewYorker.com, we learn a little more than we previously knew about Ms. Kerry's habit of letting insults fly without restraint or apology.
Her angry retort to a reporter from a perceived "right-wing" Pittsburgh newspaper ("...now shove it!") is the stuff of Presidential campaign legend. Courtesy of Ms. Thurman, we now have this additional nugget:
[Heinz Kerry] dismissed voters skeptical of her husband’s health-care proposals as “idiots,” and, in a television interview with a Pittsburgh anchorwoman, employed the word “scumbags” to describe some of her detractors.
Thurman tries to soften the blow by writing the following: "I doubt that she knows the literal meaning of 'scumbag,' but perhaps, after forty years in America, nearly thirty of them as a political wife, observing how the flaws and contradictions of a personality as complex as hers are melted down for ammunition by the other side, she should have learned it."
This latest revelation of a profane Teresa outburst reminded me of the Democratic National Convention speech given by 12-year-old Ilana Wexler, the Little Orphan Annie lookalike from Oakland, CA who created (with the help of her parents) Kids For Kerry, a website that encourages minors to urge their parents to vote for John Kerry.
Teresa Heinz Kerry herself called Wexler to invite her to Boston for the DNC confab. The most memorable moment of her ballyhooed speech (replayed ad nauseam) was her shot at Vice President Cheney, who had in days previous to Teresa's "shove it" comment said something in the realm of "F--- you" or "F--- yourself" to Senator Patrick Leahy. From the speech:
(BTW: The irony that the person who brought her to Boston to snipe at the Veep on national television herself was guilty of a vulgar outburst was lost on most of the correspondents.)
Our next goal is to have a petition for "National No Name-Calling Day," a day that the candidates don't say anything negative about one another. When our Vice President had a disagreement with a Democratic senator, he used a REALLY BAD word.
If I said that -- If I said that word, I would be put in a "time-out."
I think he should be put in a time-out...
(snip)
...Kids need positive role models in politics. And our Vice President deserves a longgggggg time-out.
So, when I heard that Ms. Loose Cannon 2004 was at it again, calling critics of her hubby "idiots" and "scumbags," I thought to myself, I wonder what excuse Little Miss Ilana would make for her loose-lipped friend? So I went to the website, and the first thing I saw was this:
The link goes to a petition page that signers can use to send a message to the following: President George W. Bush, Senator John Edwards, Senator John Kerry, Vice President Richard Cheney. It reads as follows:Sign the No Name Calling Petition. Keep campaign ads and the candidates positive!
"National No Name Calling Day". Please sign our petition asking candidates to stop negative attacks and endorse National No Name Calling Day on September 21, 2004. Imagine a day where insults take a vacation and candidates focus on what they're going to do to help our country. Together, we can send a powerful message and call for a time out on name calling and attack ads. Our leaders should be positive role models and act in ways that inspire us to better ourselves and our country. With your help, WE CAN HAVE A VOICE TODAY!!!There is something wrong with a system where attack ads and personal insults are considered the norm because they "are effective." Let's restore respect in voting and get more people to believe their voice matters. Please sign our "National No Name Calling Day" petition today.
Then use the "tell a friend" link to encourage everyone you know, all across our country, to join us and take action. Name calling has no place in our future!
I trust the irony will again by missed by the Dan Rathers in the MSM.
However, to be fair, Teresa is not targeted in the petition. This could have been deliberate; maybe Ilana realized that trying to keep THK's mouth in check was a lost cause.
"I doubt that she knows the literal meaning of 'scumbag'"
Hmmm? Mixed message here .. aren't these are the same people who say she's so intelligent and she speaks 5 languages .. but now say she wouldn't know the literal meaning of "scumbag" ..?? And .. I should believe that because ..........??
The woman is rude and her bahavior is just disgraceful.
The Kerrys are people who became rich off of other peoples labor and pretend like they're better than everybody else.He's a creep and she's a douche-bag.They make a perfect couple of idiots.
She's turning out to be a real Hilary, isn't she?
The "Naked People" were a different breed altogether. The scrawniest, boniest, saggiest hippie specimens you ever set eyes on. Just pathetic. The naked guy kept himself in shape, and while he was an offense to public decency, he at least accomodated aesthetics.
I have to agree with that. Never saw him (Victor Martinez) completely au naturel (or desired to), but what could be shown on the TV news and in the newspaper was well-toned and proportioned (unlike, for example, like that freakish "fitness celebrity John Basedow," who seems to have given a plastic surgeon a blank check with instructions to make him look like George of the Jungle).
Martinez is one of the few nudists that I have ever known of who seemed to consider the feelings of people who would have to see his naked form. His supporters, on the other hand...ewwwwwww. The less said the better, especially the pale, stringy feminist types and the you-ought-to-be-ashamed flabby guys.
(Don't worry, folks. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about this).
Of all the problems the "naked people" may cause, the arousal of libidinous desire in strangers won't be one of them.
You're right .. no amount of money can make a silk purse our of a sow's ear.
the bad one...
and the WORSE one...
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