Posted on 12/04/2002 8:13:37 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Three months before CNN political analyst Bill Schneider praised Senator John Kerry’s “intelligence,” Washington-based CNN political reporter Chris Black joined the effort to elect Kerry President by becoming Communications Director for the Heinz Foundation headed by Kerry’s wife, Teresa, the widow of the late Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz.
Black was hired to “rein in Teresa” after an embarrassing, very un-First Lady-like interview with the Washington Post, the New York Daily News reported in August. (This item has been in my pending file for awhile and today I finally found a hook for it.)
George Rush and Joanna Molloy reported in the August 22 New York Daily News:
“Teresa Heinz, the multimillionaire wife of Sen. John Kerry, is getting a top media handler to help with her image, sources confirmed yesterday.
“The condiment heiress caused her husband to fidget and sigh during a June interview with The Washington Post in which she raged against Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and mimicked Kerry having a Vietnam nightmare.
“That may be why the Heinz Foundation has just hired former CNN White House correspondent Chris Black. According to one source, Black had been wooed for months to help 'rein in Teresa,’ in anticipation of Kerry's expected run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004....”
Following many years as a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, Black jumped to CNN in late 1999 and remained at CNN through the end of the Clinton presidency in January of 2001.
To refresh your memory of who she is, you can see a picture of her on this old CNN Web page that I tracked down through Google: http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/27/black.debrief/
Not that it hasn't been tried...
;-)
A Freudian, yet understandible slip on my part. I had just read Howie Carr on gigilo Kerry's adventures over the years:
"Here's another Liveshot (Kerry's sordid nickname) story, told to me by a major Boston nightclub owner who had a luscious young galpal. One night, they're all getting down, and among the guests is a four-sheets-to-the-wind Liveshot. The girl, who's up on current events, starts tearing into Kerry for his weathervane-like voting record, telling him he needs to make a ``commitment.''
``Baby,'' he finally says, swaying ever so slightly in the breeze, ``I am ready right now to make a commitment. To you.''
Was this before or after he became Mr. Teresa Heinz?
Tony Blankley ended his column today by observing that every time John Kerry goes to bed with his wife it's a fund raising event. LOL!
ROTFLMAO. And who's the 'ho in this lovely relationship? Kerry was a man'ho before Heinz' 57 varieties. One wonders about Kerry's commitment to the widder Heinz, once she serves his purposes (read money).
Doug Thompson of CapitolHillBlue.com learned of it from a woman who witnessed it and started his own journalistic inquiry and got some swell quotes from other members of the White House Press Corps.
The day aafter, Angelwood commented through the fence to Chris about her behavior and Chris' first words were, "Let me tell you what that son of a bitch did to me!" And for 15 minutes it was "son of a bitch this" and "son of a bitch that".
So off we go. Campbell Brown of MSNBC and some young woman from CNN are both doing live reports standing on boxes. The CNN gal starts laughing after she's off. Campbell Brown throws down her clipboard when done, rips the earpiece out of her ear and stomps off. I swear there had to be little footprints embossed in the asphalt of the driveway.
We brought that out of storage at the VP's residence when again they were standing on boxes. It really freaked out the Gorons when we'd chant that, as if we weren't taking things seriously enough for theem.
You just can't write comedy better than this real life case of the CRAZY watching over the INSANE.
LOL! I can just picture Chris Black and Mrs. Heinz screaming that at each other in the near future when Ms. Black attempts to "handle" the uncontrollable Mrs. Heinz. After watching that performance, it will be impossible to tell who the crazy one really is. Actually it is both of them.
Doug Thompson of CapitolHillBlue.com learned of it from a woman who witnessed it and started his own journalistic inquiry and got some swell quotes from other members of the White House Press Corps.
If you find those quotes, please post them here.
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